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By George Patton
The best is the enemy of the good. By this I mean that a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.
- Source
- War as I Knew It, November 1, 1947 · Reflections and Suggestions
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- Houghton Mifflin, 1947 (text read in the 1980 Bantam reprint, which says it is the complete original text)
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From the "Don't Delay" paragraph in the closing reflections of War as I Knew It (1947). The widely shared version says "perfect plan executed next week"; the book says "perfect plan next week".