W. Edwards Deming Quotes

With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Vision without execution is delusion.

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

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

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

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

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.