Plans, my friend, are merely silken threads woven by the soul, wishes we give form on paper or in the mind. Yet, they dance with the wind and reshape with every breeze of fate. They are our starting point, not our final destination, for life is an art canvas whose colors change with every new touch, and the most beautiful creations are often born outside the boundaries of those meticulously drawn plans, a truth beautifully captured in these quotes.
āNever has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.ā
āIf the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.ā
āIf you donāt have a plan, you will fail, and you can quote me.ā You need a definite plan, it should be written down, and it should dictate, with military precision, the moves that you will be taking. Napoleon Hill said, āFirst comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.ā
