John Lanchester Quotes

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

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

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

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

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.

You can put in all the plays in the world, but if a guy is not executing it's not going to work.

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

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.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

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

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

I think switching is like a lot of things. You can do it - it's a game plan - but you better do it well. You better practise it.

I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.

For me, I just try to figure out ways I can affect winning.