quotes about Strategy
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Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.
-- Alan G. Lafley -
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.
-- Alexander Kotov -
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If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
-- Alvin Toffler -
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
-- Amartya Sen -
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
-- Anil Kapoor -
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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 27), 1968.
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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
-- Ben HorowitzSource : "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.
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Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
-- Ben Silbermann -
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
-- Bernard GoldbergSource : "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. August 12, 2004.
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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.
-- Brad Grey -
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.
-- Chad Hurley -
Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.
-- Chadwick Boseman -
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
-- Charles J. GivensSource : Charles J. Givens (1992). “Wealth Without Risk for Canadians”, Stoddart
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The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.
-- Chuck MartinSource : Chuck Martin (2005). “Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow the Business in Good Times and Bad”, p.12, McGraw Hill Professional
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Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
-- Craig Newmark -
I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
-- Craig Newmark -
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Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.
-- Dan Wells -
The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.
-- Daniel Pipes -
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
-- Daniel SuarezSource : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.39, Penguin
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Make generosity part of your growth strategy.
-- Danielle LaPorteSource : Danielle LaPorte (2012). “The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms”, p.294, Harmony
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Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.
-- David Cortright -
Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
-- David Dreman -
My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.
-- Don Frye -
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In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.
-- Douglas Leone -
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.
-- Duff McDonaldSource : Duff McDonald (2014). “The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy”, p.113, Oneworld Publications
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Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy,
-- Edward Lampert -
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
-- Edward Said -
To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.
-- Emanuel Lasker -
A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
-- Eric RiesSource : Eric Ries (2017). “The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth”, p.108, Currency
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The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.
-- FjordmanSource : Fjordman (2008). “Defeating Eurabia”, p.26, Lulu.com
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When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
-- Fred Couples -
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
-- Gail Pool -
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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
-- Garry Kasparov -
What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
-- Gary North -
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.
-- Gavin de BeckerSource : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
-- George McGovernSource : George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House
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Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
-- George S. Patton -
Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.
-- Glen Duncan -
As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
-- Glenn Reynolds -
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Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
-- Grover Norquist -
Strategy is a system of expedients
-- Helmuth von Moltke the ElderSource : "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings". Book by Daniel J. Hughe, p. 124, 1993.
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Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
-- Henry MintzbergSource : Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education
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Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions
-- Henry Mintzberg -
Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.
-- Henry Mintzberg -
I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.
-- J. J. Abrams -
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Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.
-- Jack Welch -
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
-- Jamais Cascio -
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
-- Jamais Cascio -
Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
-- James Cameron -
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Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.
-- James SpithillSource : "Jeff Haden: The Truth About What Motivates Us" by Dan Schawbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2018.
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The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
-- Jamie Dimon -
Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies
-- Jean Ziegler -
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If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd,
-- Jen-Hsun Huang -
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
-- Jerry Brown -
Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.
-- Jim StarlinSource : "Silver Surfer". Comic book, Vol. 3, no. 35 "The Name is Thanos", March 1990.
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There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.
-- Jim StarlinSource : "The Infinity Gauntlet". Comic book, Issue 3: Preparations for War, 1991.
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I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.
-- John F. Kerry -
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
-- John Gregory DunneSource : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books
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Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.
-- John MearsheimerSource : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company
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Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.
-- John MearsheimerSource : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company
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If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
-- John Scalzi -
The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.
-- Jon Gordon -
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
-- Jonah Goldberg -
My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
-- Jose Maria Aznar -
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It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
-- Julie Bishop -
I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.
-- Kanye West -
Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.
-- Kenichi Ohmae -
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
-- Kofi Annan -
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
-- Larry Ellison -
At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
-- Lawrence Bossidy -
Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.
-- Lena Olin -
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
-- Leon Trotsky -
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
-- Leonard Cohen -
Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.
-- Linda RottenbergSource : Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.41, Penguin
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
-- Lois McMaster BujoldSource : Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Komarr”, p.144, Baen Books
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I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
-- Lorne Michaels -
Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.
-- Marco Pierre White -
The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.
-- Mark McGrath -
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I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.
-- Mark ShuttleworthSource : "Shuttleworth Urges Telecoms Reform". tectonic.co.za. February 24, 2006.
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This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.
-- Marlin Fitzwater -
A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.
-- Martin LindstromSource : FaceBook post by Martin Lindstrom from Aug 29, 2016
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Branding is the process of connecting good strategy with good creativity.
-- Marty NeumeierSource : Marty Neumeier (2005). “The Brand Gap, Revised Edition”, p.149, Peachpit Press
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