Eniola Aluko Quotes

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

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.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

You can’t prepare for the best case; you have to prepare for the worst case.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

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.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

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.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

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

You cannot change strategy due to a trend.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

We must prepare for everything.

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.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

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).

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.