June 17th, 2009
Quote of the day: Beware the planners
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Tanny on June 17, 2009
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” John Lennon
During my 42 years on the planet, I’ve found that LIFE beats the OTHER PLANS every time.
John Clemson on June 20, 2009
Beware of economists or anyone who uses numbers for fortune telling. I knew we were in trouble when I read that the Wall Street wizards were bringing in atomic physicists to help them come up with new ways to manipulate the numbers.
Mimi Garrity Denman on June 24, 2009
One of my favorite quotes about planning: “Anticipating the future is the job of forecasters not project managers. Good project managers know they can’t predict the future.
No plan survives contact with the enemy. 19th century German general Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891)