Pierre Omidyar Quotes

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

I try not to plan that too much.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

The best plan is to have no plan.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.