Top 72 Best Strategy Quotes
#1. Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.
William J. Clinton
#2. I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
Brian Acton
#3. 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.
Seth Godin
#4. Simplicity is the best strategy.
Reciprocity is the best policy.
Debasish Mridha
#5. 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.
Ernie Els
#6. What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
Ted Engstrom
#7. He best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.
Andy Stanley
#8. Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#9. Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.
Jim Starlin
#11. Sometimes not punishing your enemy is the best strategy. What they will do to themselves, after experiencing your mercy, is much more effective.
Sarah Noffke
#12. We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
John Green
#13. Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.
Michael Ian Black
#14. My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
Jose Maria Aznar
#15. 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
#16. The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.
William Poundstone
#17. The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.
Clayton Christensen
#18. Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
George S. Patton
#19. It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.
Morihei Ueshiba
#20. The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
Marcus Buckingham
#22. Some growers believe that a particular type of music makes the plants grow faster, but most agree that the best strategy for the plants is to play whatever music the workers like best.
Amy Stewart
#23. Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.
Michael Lewis
#24. Creating great content that educates and informs is always the best marketing strategy.
David Meerman Scott
#25. Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.'
'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira
'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.
Dan Wells
#26. As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources ... The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.
James Davison Hunter
#27. The startup's goal is to find a profitable customer acquisition strategy by spending small amounts of money in a lot of them, measuring results, and then narrowing down the best channels, while performing PDCA for continuous improvement.
Francisco S. Homem De Mello
#28. Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician.- G. A. Custer
Robert Asprin
#29. 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
#30. I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.
Jeb Bush
#31. There may not be time.' Strax said, 'to conduct a full surveillance regime according to prescribed regulations in order to formulate a coherent strategy of the best method to effect entry.'
'That's true,' Madame Vastra agreed. 'So I suggest you simply break down this door.
Justin Richards
#32. Male appreciation hardened his features from doubt to certainty. Boobs, the best negotiation strategy of them all. She thanked the Lord and her genetics for her great rack.
Kate Meader
#33. Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...
Samuel R. Delany
#34. The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
Sergei Bubka
#35. Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.
Kevin Kelly
#36. I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.
Brian Cowen
#37. Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.
Lauren Lola
#38. The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
Gary Chapman
#39. Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
Max McKeown
#40. Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.
Craig Groeschel
#41. Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.
Elon Musk
#42. 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
#43. If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.
Frederick Lenz
#44. The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Michael Porter
#45. The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.
Chuck Todd
#46. An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.
Patrick Lencioni
#47. 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
#48. Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
Tahir Shah
#49. Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.
Tyga
#50. Prayer is a leader's best friend. Prayer gives her the best offensive strategy in doing the will of God. Prayer should be part of every moment of her life.
Teresa Hampton
#51. The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
Seth Godin
#52. A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael LeBoeuf
#53. In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option - we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.
Steve Krug
#54. Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.
Ben Bernanke
#55. If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.
Alex Steffen
#58. 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.
Shaun White
#59. My best race is the 100 fly, but for the 50 you just have to go really fast one way so I really like it too. It's not the same strategy. For the 50 I just breathed once, so it's really different from the 100 fly.
Katerine Savard
#60. 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
#61. Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
#62. We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
Nick Denton
#64. In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
John Romero
#65. It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.
Alexander Kotov
#66. An incompetent enemy is the best friend you can ever have.
George Bush
#67. The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
Colin Powell
#68. Hans Urs von Balthasar maintained that the best evangelistic strategy is to capture people with the beautiful, then enchant them with the good, and then lead them to the true.
Robert Barron
#69. As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
Glenn Reynolds
#70. We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.
James O'Shaughnessy
#71. Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.
Romain Grosjean
#72. In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
Miguel El Portugues
