Strategy Quotes

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

Dan Pfeiffer for me probably the most concerning at all because he is the [President Barack Obama] strategic communications adviser. What's the strategy ?

I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else.

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.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.

Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

Survival is a growth strategy.

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.

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

[The Clean Power Plan] is not the all-of-the-above energy strategy needed to boost job creation and reduce energy prices for families.