W. Edwards Deming Quotes

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

You've got to know what helps you be successful during the season.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.