Inadequate Planning Quotes

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.

[Explaining a failed policy:] Our crystal ball was very muddy.

These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Having stovepipes—not sharing information—that was the main failure of FEMA in Hurricane Katrina.

The Chilcot report is damning. It exposes a litany of failures over a long period, including reliance on flawed intelligence assessments, lack of planning and insufficient foresight of obvious consequences. But the report also exposes a chilling lack of rigour and a political culture of deference.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

It isn't that every company is going to be successful. The law of averages shows that 80% of companies are going to fail.

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that.

Trying to do more with less only means we will do nothing.

With every inch of my energy, I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

CIA paramilitary operations during the Korean War were not only ineffective but probably morally reprehensible in the number of lives lost.

My dad was a terrible businessman.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.