Strategy Quotes

A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

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.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

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.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Speed has become an important element of strategy.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

Hope is not a strategy.

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.