Adapt Quote by Tim Harford

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”

— Andy Weir

“First, no plan survives contact with the enemy. Second, the enemy also makes plans.”

— Craig Alanson

“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

“Proverbially, no military plan survives contact with the enemy. That is never truer than when there is no plan to begin with.”

— Rick Atkinson

“Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of…

— Ralph D. Sawyer

“But so long as he had no new policy, so long as he sought only to contain, the enemy without would always hold the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.”

— Joe Louis

“You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Plans—nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.”

— John Grisham

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Pursuing the goal, the leader never looks back or calculates escape strategies if plans turn sour. Nor does a true leader cast blame for…

— J Oswald Sanders

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

— Carl von Clausewitz