Top 51 Quotes About Business Plans
#1. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured
Sun Tzu
#2. Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
W. Edwards Deming
#3. There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.
Peter Chernin
#4. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill
#5. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.
Thomas J. Watson
#6. I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.
Seimone Augustus
#7. But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget
Peter Thiel
#8. Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.
James Murdoch
#9. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
Alphonsus Liguori
#10. Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.
Nas
#11. The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much ...
Paula Nelson
#12. I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together.
It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.
Michelle Mone
#13. There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.
Josh Kopelman
#14. The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
Eugene H. Peterson
#15. One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.
Moby
#16. You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.
Brenda Barnes
#17. The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.
Gregory Stock
#18. A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans." This is why during praying, I occasionally slip in my business plans. If there were an internet of somekind in heaven, my story would've been forwarded to everyone even before lunch break.
Isman H. Suryaman
#19. For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.
Bill Gates
#20. Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
Reid Hoffman
#21. Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'
Will Rogers
#22. Fact: If you don't have an effective plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.
Todd Duncan
#23. Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough.
Graham Speechley
#24. Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.
Sun Tzu
#25. It may be of interest to future generals to realize that one makes plans to fit circumstances stances and does not create circumstances to fit plans. That way danger lies.
William Duggan
#26. Chappe also had all sorts of ambitious plans for his invention; he hadn't intended its use to be so predominantly military in nature, and wanted to promote its employment in business.
Tom Standage
#27. In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.
Julie London
#28. I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.
Colin Farrell
#29. There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.
Marlo Thomas
#30. Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
Simon Mainwaring
#32. I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.
Rex Smith
#33. My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.
Charles Yu
#34. Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.
Jim Cooper
#35. Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.
Roger Wicker
#36. Plan for what you don't know rather than what you do.
Adam Hartung
#37. I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.
Larry Holmes
#38. Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.
Sergey Brin
#40. People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.
Arthur Rock
#41. Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.
Alexa Von Tobel
#42. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu
#43. Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan
Steve Blank
#44. I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.
Benjamin Cohen
#45. Online business models are still evolving. New and different products and services pop up every day. This gives rise to supporting products and services. A business can make substantial profit by helping others execute their plans for making money.
Marc Ostrofsky
#46. Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.
Steve Blank
#47. We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business.
Adi Godrej
#48. Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
#50. Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.
Darren Walker
#51. Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
Guy Kawasaki