Grand Plans Quotes

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

When people suggest we like to 'dream big'... they're absolutely right.

[Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.