Strategy Quotes

Strategy Quote of the day

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

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

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

Help your pieces so they can help you

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Some are arguing that the Democrats should resist at every turn [to Donald's Trump administration], and some Democrats are saying that's the strategy that Democrats should now employ.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal