No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
You can’t build up a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
The art of making plans consists of pre-empting the difficulties of its completion.
Luc de Clapiers, Marqius des Vauvenargues
Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
It is no drama, if the project doesn’t go according to plan. It is a drama, if the project manager doesn’t know anything about it.
Peter Hobbs
Rather decide almost right than exactly wrong.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With small blows you also fall big trees.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience is called the sum of all our mistakes.
Thomas Alva Edison
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.
Henry Ford