Citations de Général Dwight David Eisenhower

En anglais : " In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."

En anglais : "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. "

En anglais : "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "

"Chaque canon fabriqué, chaque navire de guerre mis à flot, chaque fusée lancée représente en dernière analyse un vol commis au préjudice de ceux qui ont faim et ne sont pas nourris, de ceux qui ont froid et ne sont pas vêtus. Ce monde ne gaspille pas seulement de l’argent par les armes. Il gaspille aussi la sueur de ses travailleurs, le génie de ses savants, l’espoir de ses enfants."

En anglais : "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "

En anglais : "I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are planning for an emergency you must start with this one thing: the very definition of "emergency" is that it is unexpected, therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning." (From a speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, D.C. (November 14, 1957) )

En anglais , la reformulation suivante est fréquente :
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."