“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business… — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
“Venture capitalists typically reject 994 business plans for every six they agree to fund.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much. — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
“We have no idea what your venture is or even your industry, so we won’t presume to tell you how to create… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The banks' product is debt. They try to tell customers that "debts are good for you," but the customers can't afford any… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a… — Stephen Downes Copy Share Image
Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
“One of the insidious traps of a startup is promising different customers a set of unique extensions or modifications. While it is… — Steven Gary Blank Copy Share Image
The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
“We have a complete business plan that aims to yield investors 1,000% returns within only a five-year period. We have all the… — Bathroom Readers' Institute Copy Share Image
The biggest complaint from people wanting to start a business is, "I don't have capital." Banks aren't lending but if they were,… — Cameron Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there has been progress in terms of a growth of people's knowledge of the game and a feeling that the… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“The dream of stitching the world into a global village has been embodied in the nomenclature of modern technology—the net is interconnected,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Ask yourself these questions if you’re just starting your business: What’s the main reason you want to be a business owner? What’re… — Liesha Petrovich Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard. — Daniel Meyer Copy Share Image
Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“They're building a party from outside to take over the party - they're doing it by market segments - it's like a… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I don't want it to be so complicated - promoters, a business plan, none of that. — Aroldis Chapman Copy Share Image
“don't make a business plan before you make a personal plan, a poor mind will only lead to failure, work on yourself… — Anath Lee Wales Copy Share Image
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it. — David Pogue Copy Share Image
There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong. — Josh Kopelman Copy Share Image
“My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
We had a bunch of 'we's - a fitness concept, a restaurant concept. The first business plan we had included all of… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Baking as a career is very different to baking as a hobby. Business plans are needed and it's not all plain sailing. — John Whaite Copy Share Image
