Shona Brown quotes

“Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.”
-- Shona Brown

Source : "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos". Book by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Shona Brown, 1998.

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“At LearnVest, we're working to make financial planning both accessible and affordable so that everyone has the opportunity to get on track financially.”

Source : "The Impossible Conundrum" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

“To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.”

“He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.”

“I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.”

“When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.”

“Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want,”

“My plan was never to be an actor like my father.”

Source : "Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

“What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.”

“...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I don't really live by plans.”

Source : "Andrea Corr interview: I got excited about music again" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2011.