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“Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.”

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Author:Steve Blank

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

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven---to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.”

“For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.””

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Author:David Pogue

“You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.”

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Author:Ron Conway

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

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Author:Karen Mills

“We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.”

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Author:Craig Newmark

“Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.”

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Author:Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

“There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.”

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Author:Peter Chernin

“One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.”

“People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.”

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Author:Arthur Rock

“...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"”

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Author:Paul Newman

“Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.”

“Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.”

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Author:Daniel Meyer

“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.”

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Author:Barbara Corcoran

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

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.”

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Author:Steve Blank

“Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.”

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Book:The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

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

“I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.”

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Author:William Deresiewicz

“Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.”

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Author:Preity Zinta

“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.”

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Author:Swizz Beatz

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