“Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.”

Source: Rework

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scari…" by Jason Fried?

Jason Fried9

software entrepreneur

Related quotes

“Plan out your work Then work out your plan. The former without the latter is a sheer waste. The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

“Even the master plan has room for improvement.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

“And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.”

Frank Beddor Seeing Redd

Source: Seeing Redd

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

“A good deal of the corporate planning I have observed is like a ritual rain dance; it has no effect on the weather that follows, but those who engage in it think it does. Moreover, it seems to me that much of the advice and instruction related to corporate planning is directed at improving the dancing, not the weather.”

Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist

Source: 1980s, Creating the Corporate Future, 1981, p. ix in the Preface: "Creating the Corporate Future: Plan or be Planned For," Wiley, April 27, 1981

“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”

John Steinbeck book The Pearl

Source: The Pearl (1947), Ch. III

“This plan will work.”

Timothy Geithner (1961) American central banker and politician

House Financial Services Committee, March 24, 2009 http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/geithners-arrogance-knows-no-bounds.html http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/hr03240923.shtml

“We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.”

Arlen Specter (1930–2012) American politician; former United States Senator from Pennsylvania

In a hearing on Congress's War Powers; reported in " Senate Republicans divided in dissent on Iraq http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16877327/", NBC News (January 30, 2007)/

“All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Jason Fried9

Related quotes

Related topics