Top 52 Great Strategy Quotes
#1. One idea alone is a tactic, but if it can be executed a number of different ways, it becomes a great strategy.
Marc Benioff
#2. A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick
Scott Adams
#3. Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
#4. Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.
Franco Harris
#5. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
Max McKeown
#6. It's such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it's windy, you'll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.
Keegan Bradley
#7. A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
Max McKeown
#8. Whilst running away is a great strategy, a good coward always takes the unfair advantage.
Mark Lawrence
#10. I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.
Sid Meier
#11. 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
#12. I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
Dan Levitan
#13. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats - and then they figured out where to drive it.
James C. Collins
#14. It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
Bernard Madoff
#15. When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies in great stony ruin at your feet. If you succeed in breaking it, the job is done once and for all. It will not be repaired.
Charles Baxter
#16. I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
John McEnroe
#17. I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
Jack Canfield
#18. one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared. She
Genevieve Cogman
#19. Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.
Curt Coffman
#20. I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
Bruce McCulloch
#21. We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The
Cinda Williams Chima
#22. Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Colin Powell
#23. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.
Douglas Wilson
#24. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.
Todd Stocker
#25. If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
Tom Watson
#26. The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
Jamie Dimon
#27. Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die out. That's why any human survival strategy has to include a plan to maintain our environment roughly in the state that it's in now.
Annalee Newitz
#28. Creating great content that educates and informs is always the best marketing strategy.
David Meerman Scott
#29. Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.
Chris Albrecht
#30. For we Germans are snoring, buried in sleep and wine, and we are destitute of leaders who could measure up in wisdom, strategy, and strength of heart to manage such great undertakings.
Martin Luther
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. The four-step strategy that the Laptop Millionaire taught me was very simple: 1. Find a niche market with a problem that needs solving, research some great solutions, and create a Word document with that information in it. This can be a simple 30-page Word document, with one really good idea in it!
Mark Anastasi
#34. There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
Miyamoto Musashi
#35. When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.
Ava DuVernay
#36. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
Bill Vaughan
#37. Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
Sun Tzu
#38. Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.
Hartmut Esslinger
#39. I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
Craig Ferguson
#41. I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
Buzz Aldrin
#42. An image system is a strategy of motifs, a category of imagery embedded in the film that repeats in sight and sound from beginning to end with persistence and great variation, but with equally great subtlety, as a subliminal communication to increase the depth and complexity of aesthetic emotion.
Robert McKee
#43. Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#44. Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
Jamais Cascio
#45. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.
Richie Norton
#46. (On George Eliot's narrative strategy)
It also forfeits the great game of the omniscient narrator, which is to know secrets which none of the characters involved will ever learn, ironically taking their unhappy ignorance to the grave.
Fredric Jameson
#47. You may end up with a great website or mobile app, but you have learnt nothing in the process and have not taken ownership of your digital strategy.
Anonymous
#48. Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
Eric Schmidt
#49. Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.
David Brier
#50. See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
James Daly
#51. The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.
Roy Niederhoffer
#52. The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.
Aron Nimzowitsch