Business Strategy Quotes:

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

- Patrick Dixon

source: Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.233, Profile Books

topic: Strategy, Better Future, Business Strategy

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Cutting, Strategy, Business Strategy

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

- Craig Newmark

topic: Persistence, Mba, Luck, Business Strategy

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Business, Victory, Noise, Strategic Management, War Strategy

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

- Jack Welch

source: "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Inspiring Business

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Morning, Risk, Young Entrepreneurs, Successful Entrepreneurs, Chance And Risk

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

- Michael Porter

source: Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Essence, Deep Thought, Transcendentalism, Strategic Management, Business Strategy

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

- Michael LeBoeuf

topic: Inspirational, Loyalty, Business, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspiring Customer Service

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

- Michael Porter

topic: Goal, Sound, Strategy, Business Strategy, Strategist

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

- Lawrence Bossidy

topic: People, Twenties, May, Business Strategy, Plain Language

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Management Motivation, Managing People

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

- Kenichi Ohmae

topic: Would Be, Needs, Purpose, Strategic, Strategic Planning

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Real, Hell, Strategy, Business Strategy

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful, Managing Change, Change Management

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

- George S. Patton

topic: Motivational, Business, Learning, Military General, Being Weird

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

- Sun Tzu

source: Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

topic: Strength, Peace, War, Strategic Management, War Games

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Young Entrepreneurs, Make You Think Twice

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Work, Future, Entrepreneur, Inspirational Hard Work, Strategic Leadership

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

- Leon Trotsky

topic: May, Strategy, Business Strategy

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Leadership, Business, Character, Good Character, Inspiring Leader

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

topic: Missing, Marketing, World, Marketing Strategy, Business Strategy

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Success, Business, Military, Military Strategy, Modern Era

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Business, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiration And Innovation

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is ...

- Miyamoto Musashi

topic: Strong, Sight, Perception, Business Strategy

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

topic: War, Men, Victory, War Strategy, War Victory

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Business, Winning, Battle, War Strategy, War Victory

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Inspirational, Art, Fear, Knowing Others, Military History

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Military History, Military Soldier

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management, Management Motivation, Managing People

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Events, Confession, Claims, Complicity, Business Strategy

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

- James Daly

topic: Business, Tools, Internet, Business Strategy

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

- Sun Tzu

source: Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: War, Enemy, Suffering, Military Strategy, Strategic

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

- Herodotus

topic: Opportunity, Views, Decision, Business Strategy

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

- Robert S. Kaplan

topic: Order, Goal, Today, Business Strategy

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Artist, People, Giving, Business Strategy

If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is

- Paul Gilding

topic: Business, Commitment, Growth, Business Strategy

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

- Jamie Dimon

topic: Hands, Growth, Benefits, Shareholders, Business Strategy

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

- Vinod Khosla

topic: Opportunity, Strategy, Faster, Business Strategy

It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

- Thorstein Veblen

topic: Mean, Work Out, Use, Business Strategy, Sagacity

As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

- Ursula Burns

topic: Powerful, Practice, Careers, Business Strategy

Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

- Bob Schmetterer

topic: Business, Heart, Creativity, Business Strategy