Frank Rijkaard Quotes

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I think long-term, not short-term.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

I've always had a plan. Even since, maybe, 12 years old. Really.

I never, ever deviate from my plans.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.