Best Business Strategy Quotes

#1. What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

Daniel H. Pink

#2. A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael LeBoeuf

#3. Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Yogi Berra

#4. I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Paul R. Niven

#6. The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#7. Life is made up of dots

David Brier

#8. I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

Michael Dell

#9. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Alice Schroeder

#10. 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.

David A. Aaker

#11. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#12. Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

Alan G. Lafley

#13. Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

Sun Tzu

#14. Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Jamie Dimon

#15. Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

Patrick Dixon

#16. In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.

Matthew Stewart

#17. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

David Brier

#18. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

Reid Hoffman

#19. When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

Seth Godin

#20. The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

Baba Kalyani

#21. When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream. It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

Sun Tzu

#22. Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Stephen Covey

#23. Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

Jack Welch

#24. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

#25. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

#26. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Crystal Woods

#27. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

#28. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.

David Brier

#29. Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

Bob Schmetterer

#30. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Sun Tzu

#31. You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

John Key

#32. Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#33. Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Sun Tzu

#34. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Bill Gates

#35. Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#36. Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Roth

#37. Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Sun Tzu

#38. Leaders must (1) define the business of the business, (2) create a winning strategy, (3) communicate persuasively, (4) behave with integrity, (5) respect others, and (6) act.

Judith M Bardwick

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

Paul Gibbons

#40. I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

Vinod Khosla

#41. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...

Max McKeown

#42. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Sun Tzu