Dottie Lamm Quotes

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

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

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.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.

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.

In my career, I've found that anything can happen.

We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

Luck is not a business model.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

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

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.