Strategy Quotes
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
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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.
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A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Services remains a really significant part of our growth strategy.
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never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you
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...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government.
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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.
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Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?
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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.
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.
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Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.
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Strategy is figuring out what not to do.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.
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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.
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I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.
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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.
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Hope is not a strategy.
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Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.
