Business Plan Quotes

• Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

  Yogi Berra

  Goal, Needs, Brilliant

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

  Paula Nelson

  Planning, Best Business, Straightforward

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

  Steve Jobs

  Simple, Quality, Best Business

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• Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Reality, Encounters

  "Turning Obstacles into Opportunities" by André Borschberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

  Bill Rancic

  Jobs, Business, Entrepreneur

  Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

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• Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

  Jim Rohn

  Riches, Wealth, Fingers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 29, 2016

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

  Brian Tracy

  Self, Focus, Demand

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• Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Successful, Organization, Good Business

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• The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.

  Cameron Johnson

  Two, Competition, Addresses

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Needs

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

  Karen Mills

  Giving, Advice, Needs

  "Small Business chief sees small firms as vital to recovery". Interview with Laura Petrecca, www.usatoday.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

  Swizz Beatz

  Winning, Thinking, Needs

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• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Succeed, Failing, Profit

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• The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Purpose, Gains, Planning

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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