Robert Heller Quotes

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

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.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

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

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

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

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

There are two ways to fail. The first is to not make your plan. The second is to make your plan and your plan is not big enough. Most people fail in the second way. They make their plans by month, by quarter and by year.

Vision without execution is delusion.

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.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.

I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

I start with an end in mind. In everything.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.