Lewis Howes Quotes

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

When you plan something, it never works.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.