Quotes on Business Plan

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.