A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
George Smith Patton
Most managers hesitate to let their staff run with the ball, but it is amazing, who fast an informed and motivated person can run.
Lee Iacocca
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
Planning without execution is mostly useless - execution without planning is mostly fatal.
Willy Meurer
If an engineer has not had some failures, it is merely evidence that his practice has not been sufficiently extensive.
Benjamin Baker
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche
The genius of a construction lies in its simplicity. Everyone can build complex.
Sergei P. Koroljow
The art of making plans consists of pre-empting the difficulties of its completion.
Luc de Clapiers, Marqius des Vauvenargues
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
One should never be so busy as to have no time left for contemplation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg