75 Of The Very Best Strategy Quotes
~Strategy Quotes~
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results-Winston Churchill
- Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy-Norman Schwarzkopf
- All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved-Sun Tzu
- The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks-Mark Zuckerberg
- Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men-Miyamoto Musashi
- Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy-Sun Tzu
- Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising-Jef I. Richards
- You know the best thing about competition? There’s this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you’re so happy-Shaun White
- A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy-Rod Blagojevich
- A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all-Michael LeBoeuf
- There’s only one growth strategy: work hard-William Hague
- You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you-Leon Trotsky
- A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message-Jack Welch
- There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp-Mark Zuckerberg
- We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy-Bill Gates
- Mine’s a pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy-Ryan Seacrest
- You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless-Charles de Gaulle
- Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy-Rudy Giuliani
- The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy-Michael Porter
- Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures-Carlos Ghosn
- Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different-Michael Porter
- The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music-Mark Zuckerberg
- And so if your competitors aren’t growing, if there isn’t a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy-Jim Cantalupo
- The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry-Barry Diller
- A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story-Chuck Klosterman
- The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person-Sergei Bubka
- The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do-Michael Porter
- You can’t base an industry solely on one person. That’s a very vulnerable business strategy-John Key
- Strategy 101 is about choices: You can’t be all things to all people-Michael Porter
- Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented-Michael Porter
- A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique-Michael Porter
- I’ve done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before-Frank Luntz
- Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy-Suzanne Fields
- Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that-Michael Ian Black
- See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool-James Daly
- If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy-Ralph Merkle
- Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling-Naveen Jain
- A country’s strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook-Marc Forne Molne
- Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it’s about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first-Andrea Jung
- In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess-Lennox Lewis
- Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation-Max Euwe
- Sound strategy starts with having the right goal-Michael Porter
- The company without a strategy is willing to try anything-Michael Porter
- The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish-Michael Porter
- The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change-Michael Porter
- Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there-John P. Kotter
- Fortunately, it’s still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy-David Hackworth
- In marketing I’ve seen only one strategy that can’t miss – and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last-John Romero
- If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed-Tom Watson
- I’m in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won’t be able to. So, I don’t have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything-Tom Welling
- My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they’ll want more-Keith Sweat
- Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it-Frank Muir
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake-Napoleon Bonaparte
- Study the past if you would define the future-Confucius
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends-Baltasar Gracián
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win-Sun Tzu
- Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt-Sun Tzu
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in-Napoleon Bonaparte
- Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft-Theodore Roosevelt
- In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable-Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Always focus on the front windshield and not the rear view mirror-Colin Powell
- Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available-Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do-Michael E. Porter
- Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option-Anon
- Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions-Henry Mintzberg
- Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things-Miyamoto Musashi
- Corporate Social Responsibility should be more than coloring your annual report green and giving a bag of money to your favorite charity in return for some nice pictures-Anon
- Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory; tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat-Sun Tsu
- Strategy is thinking about a choice and choosing to stick with your thinking-Anon
- If companies would invest as much time in their strategy cascade as they do in their budgeting process, most would perform a lot better-Anon
- From Good to Great is nice, but knowing when great is good enough is even better-Anon
- In many organizations, budget is king. It’s like the Amazon, the source of life. The strategy process is more like a small stream that meanders slowly through the organization (and if you’re unlucky, the water doesn’t flow at all and starts to smell)-Anon
- Budgets are like oil tankers – they need time to change course. You don’t want to be left standing on the deck of your oil tanker, watching all the opportunities pass you by unable to stop and turn to chase after them-Anon
- When building a new strategy don’t ever let people seduce you with the line; “But that’s always been budgeted for”-Anon
- Like strategy, innovation is a cool word. Put strategy and innovation in a single phrase and a strategy tourist starts drooling-Anon