Tim Harford Quotes

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

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.

Always have a backup plan.

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.

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

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

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

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

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

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

Luck is not a business model.

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

We must prepare for everything.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

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