No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.
Henry Ford
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
Experience is called the sum of all our mistakes.
Thomas Alva Edison
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage
With small blows you also fall big trees.
Benjamin Franklin
Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Planning without execution is mostly useless - execution without planning is mostly fatal.
Willy Meurer
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford