Backward Planning Quotes

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward.

We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

Start at the end and work back.

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.