Strategy Quotes

A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.

A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.

If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

The speaker instructs his audience to cheer wildly at the word tomorrow -- then forgot. When he used the word building toward the climax of his presentation, he was so started he fell off the stage.

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

The move is there, but you must see it.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.

Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

The art of war is the art of deception.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

It is time to euthanize change management.

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them

Strategy is 5 percent thinking, 95 percent execution. And strategy execution is 5 percent technical, 95 percent people-related.

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.

One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

5, 6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.

The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.

Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.