Strategy Quotes

• Organizational analyses that show separate boxes for “culture” and “strategy” are making a fundamental conceptual error. Strategy is an integral part of the culture.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Culture
  • Error
  • Analyses

• Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Poem
  • Construction

• His role hasn't changed. He's an important part of what we do. The last week or two we haven't been very successful on offense. He's a big part of what we do, and he's in every pass play, and we'd like to get him the ball as much as we can.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Game
  • Success

• The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Victory

• So explore when you will have time to use the resulting knowledge, exploit when you’re ready to cash in. The interval makes the strategy.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Knowledge
  • Strategy

• We're going to try a couple of other things this week.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Game
  • Couple

• Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

  

  George Stillman Hillard
  • Genius
  • Strategy
  • Function

• I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Strategy
  • Campaign

• Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Peace
  • Democracy
  • Security

• The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Creativity
  • Successful

• My biggest fear is that we Unilever company at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest workers. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Fear
  • Workers
  • Enviroment

• When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you're feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Feeling
  • Hole
  • Driver

• I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

  

  Cecil Purdy
  • Looks
  • Position
  • Chess

• We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Easy
  • Students
  • Variety

• Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

  

  Tim Johnson
  • Jobs
  • Cutting
  • Succeed

• To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both.

  

  Bernard Kouchner
  • Strategy
  • Transform
  • Pioneerlike

• I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

  

  Bonnie Canino
  • Woman
  • Strength
  • Technique

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Strategy
  • Campaign

• Cultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Risk
  • Danger
  • Chosen

• More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Culture
  • Strategy
  • Agriculture

• Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ability
  • Impact
  • Colleagues

• The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Important
  • Things
  • Strategy

• A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Company
  • Strategy
  • Territory

• Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Leader
  • Poor
  • Motivational

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