I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
Charles De GaulleRead
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Having a plan, even a flawed one, is preferable to having no plan whatsoever.
This quote by Charles De Gaulle emphasizes the importance of planning in achieving any goal. It suggests that while a bad plan may not lead to the best outcomes, taking action with a plan is far better than being paralyzed by the absence of a plan, as it allows for progress and learning from mistakes.
Themes
PlanningActionStrategyProgressDecision
In practice
Example use cases
During a team meeting, when discussing project strategies, you might say this quote to encourage team members to draft any plan rather than delay.
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All quotes →Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
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