Top 48 Quotes About Business Planning
#1. Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.
Brian Tracy
#2. Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy
Jason Fried
#3. Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.
Janet Yellen
#4. Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.
Daniel Meyer
#5. Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
John Harvey-Jones
#6. Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.
Graham Speechley
#7. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
#9. Yeah, well, it's really none of your business, is it?"
"No."
"There you go, then," she says, waving her juice at me before taking another swig. "Unless you're planning to lick it or stick it, Lorenzo, keep your nose out of my business.
J.M. Darhower
#10. There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart.
John Woodward
#11. If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.
Alan W. Kennedy
#12. Even if I was planning on giving the business, I never wanted to look like I was in "the business".
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#13. Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.
James W. Moseley
#14. And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Alan Shepard
#15. The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.
Daniel Egger
#16. I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
Shannon Miller
#17. In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.
Auliq Ice
#18. Plan for what you don't know rather than what you do.
Adam Hartung
#20. There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
Akio Morita
#21. Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
Bill Jensen
#22. Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
Rachael Bermingham
#23. Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
Habeeb Akande
#24. 90% of new business fail in the first three months of launching, due to lack of proper planning, wrong selection of niche/products and marketing platform.
K. Raveendran
#26. You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
Chris Corrigan
#27. There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.
Peter Chernin
#28. She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place.
Jonathan Franzen
#29. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#30. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
Max McKeown
#31. We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.
James P. Hoffa
#32. Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
Richard Rogers
#33. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#34. Digitalization implies the full-scale changes in the way business is conducted so that it's a multi-dimensional planning and orchestration.
Pearl Zhu
#35. The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much ...
Paula Nelson
#36. We are currently not planning on conquering the world.
Sergey Brin
#37. You wouldn't get in a car and drive around aimlessly, hoping to eventually arrive at a pleasant destination. So why would you even consider doing this for your business?
Koos Kruger
#38. I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
Meryl Streep
#39. Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69)
Injap Sia
#40. We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.
Herb Kelleher
#41. Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker
#42. Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.
James Caan
#43. I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#44. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
Bobby Darnell
#45. Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.
Stephen King
#46. Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.
Sun Tzu
#47. Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#48. Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
Liz Weber
