Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
Jim MattisSuccess is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
Tennessee WilliamsWhen I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.
Richard BransonCompetitions are a business, first and foremost.
Abby Lee MillerIt takes a smart man to play dumb.
Mr. TIf we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonYou can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. BushForethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon BonaparteYou can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.
Harry S. TrumanI think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouBobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.
Dan QuayleSome of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
Colin PowellI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray BradburyThe biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark ZuckerbergNo foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry KissingerIf you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. TrumanCarry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.
Harry S. TrumanI’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly PartonI don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.
Terry PratchettI’m bad at picking heroes.
Margaret AtwoodFootball is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill ShanklyI have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will RogersDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
Mark ZuckerbergConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew CarnegieI try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Taylor SwiftIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
Madeleine AlbrightIn energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
Bill GatesMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander HamiltonGeneral Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel CastroLife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody AllenI don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.
Lou HoltzIt’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.
Harry S. TrumanBefore beginning, plan carefully.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
Golda MeirWhen I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.
Jurgen KloppBattles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston ChurchillYou must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon BonaparteIt pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac AsimovThe smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Brian EnoWhere the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack ObamaGood planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Edmund HillaryPlay the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
Winston ChurchillFrom an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.
Russell M. NelsonThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillIt’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.
Lando NorrisWe are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan QuayleOften I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.
Terry PratchettI believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
Jim MattisService of any type requires preparation.
Russell M. NelsonI’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.
Tom BradyFootball is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.
Jurgen KloppOne word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.
Dan QuayleNobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. PattonIt’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.
John KennedyThe onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.
George BestI am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon BonaparteBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin