Strategy Quotes

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

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.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Branding is the process of connecting good strategy with good creativity.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality.

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.