The best-laid plans of mice (er...dogs) and men often go awry. - Robert Burns

"No plan of operation extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force. Only the layman thinks that he can see in the course of the campaign the consequent execution of the original idea with all the details thought out in advance and adhered to until the very end." --Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the Prussian general staff during the wars of German unification.

"(The commander must keep his objective in mind) undisturbed by the vicissitudes of events....But the path on which he hopes to reach it can never be firmly established in advance. Throughout the campaign he must make a series of decisions on the basis of situations that cannot be foreseen. The successive acts of war are thus not premeditated designs, but on the contrary are spontaneous acts guided by military measures. Everything depends on penetrating the uncertainty of veiled situations to evaluate the facts, to clarify the unknown, to make decisions rapidly, and then to carry them out with strength and constancy." --Helmuth von Moltke

Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.--Marchant

Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson

No plan originated by another will be as sympathetically handled as ones own plan.--Conrad H. Lanza (Napoleon and Modern Warfare)

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.--Confucius

Plans get you into things but you must work your way out.--Will Rogers

Strategic planning is worthless--unless there is first a strategic vision.--John Naisbitt (Megatrends)

There is enough time for everything in the course of a day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.--Lord Chesterfield (Letters to His Son, April 14, 1747)

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.--Napoleon Hill, American Author, Speaker, Motivational Writer





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