Quotes About Strategic Thinking

#1. At this stage, don't take any of your statistics too literally and don't let any single number dominate your strategic thinking.

Anonymous

#2. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.

Carlos Wallace

#3. Don't settle for anything less. Rise up and optimize your talents through strategic thinking and big dream. Your God should be your guide in all things.

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. Grove continued to act on the conviction that good strategic thinking requires different points of view and clarifying those different points of view requires intensive, ongoing debate involving the executive team and domain experts inside and outside the company.

David B. Yoffie

#5. There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

Tom Rath

#6. Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind.

Pearl Zhu

#7. With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.

Elizabeth Warren

#8. The value-added Board brings the high-performance result, "deep common sense," balance, improved strategic thinking, creativity, wisdom and more.

Pearl Zhu

#9. Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking

Nabil Khalil Basma

#10. Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

Henry Mintzberg

#11. Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

Kenichi Ohmae

#12. Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision

Pearl Zhu

#13. From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Narendra Modi

#14. Strategic partnership is the truest foundation for marriage and intimacy. Strategic thinking does not assume atomistic individuals; indeed, Austen argues that strategic thinking in concert forms the basis of the closest human relationships.

Michael Suk-Young Chwe

#15. Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma and presentation style: creativity, good strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills.

Kevin Dutton

#16. Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

Peter Drucker

#17. Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

Jamais Cascio

#18. Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#19. We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

Roger McNamee

#20. Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.

Pearl Zhu

#21. I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it?

Winona Ryder

#22. I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

David E. Hoffman

#23. A strategic board has a view of looking ahead, an insight to look deeper, and competency to look beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#24. I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.

William Morris

#25. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell

#26. Design does need more recognition as thinking and problem-solving process, maybe even a strategic differentiator.

Pearl Zhu

#27. The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#28. Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.

Mike Pence

#29. I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

Hilary Duff

#30. Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

Patrick Lencioni

#31. I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

Helmut Schmidt

#32. We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models.

Cornel West

#33. I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

Michael Hyatt

#34. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

Ray Anderson

#35. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"

Hugh Hewitt