Strategy Quotes

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

I believe in an "all of the above" energy strategy.

The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.

We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

Strategy is the articulation of the overall objectives along with general guidelines on achieving those objectives.

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.