A Quote by Alan Lakein

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Alan Lakein

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Alan Lakein
American - Businessman

In the end, failing to plan and planning to fail aren't so different.

Andrew Williams

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Brian Tracy

I was always told failure to plan is planning to fail, so I've always been a huge guy on planning.

Caris LeVert

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Benjamin Franklin

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Winston Churchill

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

Orson Scott Card

Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.

Wallace Stegner

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Ronald Reagan

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Sebastian Thrun

The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

Lee Carroll

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

Ray Bradbury

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

Bob Goff

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.