Strategy Quotes

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

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

hindsight is not a strategy.

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

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.

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

Long-term vision and product strategy.

I think this job at T-Mobile has more than anything else helped me really see and understand how to set a strategy, communicate like crazy, and then passionately lead from the front of it.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.