"The best plan is only a plan......" - Quote by Peter Drucker
The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.
More by Peter Drucker
“It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.”
“Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.”
“No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.”
More on Planning
“Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.”
“Never make a promise without a plan.”
“It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.”