Samuel Adams Quotes

My business is to prevent the future.

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Be Prepared.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

You get a sense when you're a player of where the game's going and you work your way around that.

If you can prepare yourself to the best of your abilities and react to the situation, things will fall into place.

One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

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

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.