Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy.
Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.
If you don’t have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else’s plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You’ve got to be the architect of your life.
Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
Plan your work and work your plan.
Whatever it takes to win.
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.
Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the life blood of business.
Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.
Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.
Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general’s tent.
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.