In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.. Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless

Your plan was unworkable then and useless now... Like da Vinci's flying machine plans...

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of "emergency" is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning.

planning is arrogant and inflexible. Instead you should try things out,

Without a plan, we do what’s passive and easy — not what is really fulfilling. Robert Epstein surveyed thirty thousand

We have all heard the saying "the man with a plan is king." I believe a man without a plan is just a pawn to circumstance and embarking on a losing strategy.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

Planning is important, but the most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!