Quotes About Strategy

#1. in 2013 in Sweden, an expert health advisory group, after spending two years reviewing 16,000 studies, concluded that a diet low in fat was an ineffective strategy for tackling either obesity or diabetes.

Nina Teicholz

#2. Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Michael Porter

#3. Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.

Randall Munroe

#4. Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

Ha-Joon Chang

#5. I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

Cory Booker

#6. Simplicity is the best strategy.
Reciprocity is the best policy.

Debasish Mridha

#7. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

Anatoly Karpov

#8. Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jean Ziegler

#9. If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

Robert Greene

#10. Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.

Patrick Lencioni

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

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#12. Strategy is the articulation of the overall objectives along with general guidelines on achieving those objectives.

Leonard Saffir

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

Red Auerbach

#14. 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.

Joel Ross

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

Adam Khoo

#16. It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

Vaclav Klaus

#17. It is necessary to know ten thousand things by knowing one well. If you are to practice the way of strategy, nothing must escape your eyes.54 Reflect well on this.

Miyamoto Musashi

#18. A third path that a business can follow - an offshoot of our two main strategies - is pursuing a highly targeted market and focusing its resources on serving that tight segment, whether through cost leadership or differentiation. This is the focus strategy.

Anonymous

#19. One day it seemed like a good idea, the next day it didn't. That kind of thing happened all the time, way back when, because strategy was fluid. Or because nobody had the faintest idea what they were doing.

Lee Child

#20. Strategy is not about doing things ... it's about doing things deliberately.

Buffi Neal

#21. My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy's arrogance.

Jessica Knoll

#22. Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Patrick Lencioni

#23. The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.

William Manchester

#24. It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. I'm able to utilize a lifetime of learning to help teach young people how to apply sound marketing strategy and principles for the purpose of growing the client's business. And for me, that's just too much fun.

Lionel Sosa

#26. Capabilities are the link between strategy and execution.

Paul Leinwand

#27. Lo pitched Superheroes & Scones to his father as a marketing strategy for Halway Comics. But I know the idea has nothing to do with his company. What he did was buy me something of my own, something I could look forward to after college. He found me happiness ...

Krista Ritchie

#28. It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

Jay Leno

#29. 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.

Robert Greene

#30. If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

William J. Clinton

#31. Governance as strategy . For some researchers, the central purpose of governance is strategic. It is a mechanism for ensuring that the goals and objectives of the board of directors are implemented.

Anonymous

#32. My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

Benjamin Stone

#33. The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

Gijs De Vries

#34. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.

Patricia McCormick

#35. The role of the CMS is not simply to shuffle and store packets of information. Its primary role is to help your content strategy succeed

Kristina Halvorson

#36. The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Mark Zuckerberg

#37. There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

#38. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Mark Helprin

#39. President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Timothy Noah

#40. 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

#41. The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

MC Hammer

#42. The Strategy of Safeguards requires us to take a very realistic - perhaps even fatalistic - look at ourselves. But while acknowledging the likelihood of temptation and failure may seem like a defeatist approach, it helps us identify, avoid, and surmount our likely stumbling blocks.

Gretchen Rubin

#43. There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Kofi Annan

#44. I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached.

Jen Hatmaker

#45. The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.

Jean Baudrillard

#46. Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

Bob Shacochis

#47. The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#48. Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

Ben Silbermann

#49. Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.

Max Lucado

#50. 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.

Norman Finkelstein

#51. 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

#52. Every company wants one, yet few companies have one: a compelling strategy.

W.Chan Kim

#53. If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#54. Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.

Pearl Zhu

#55. My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.

Louis Oosthuizen

#56. What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

Mao Zedong

#57. I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

Rebecca Hall

#58. A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.

Jeb Bush

#59. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#60. Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action

Carol Anne Douglas

#61. The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.

Vladimir Kramnik

#62. Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.

Maureen Corrigan

#63. Strategy is about shaping the future.

Max McKeown

#64. Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#65. The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

#66. Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small forces as an earnest of good intentions, heedless of their gross inadequacy for the military purpose at hand.

Max Hastings

#67. A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

Michael Porter

#68. I love your bracelet!' I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

Ally Carter

#69. Along with the GI Bill, which educated and housed Eisenhower's fellow veterans, the Interstate System has proved to be by far the most important economic-development strategy of the federal government.

David S. Broder

#70. The key factor in my strategy is longevity.

Sheldon Adelson

#71. A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

William Cohen

#72. To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

Julius Caesar

#73. Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.

Stephen Covey

#74. I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.

John Battelle

#75. Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

Thomas C. Schelling

#76. Forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish.

Malcolm Gladwell

#77. In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

Nina Easton

#78. A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.

Pearl Zhu

#79. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

Robert J. Sawyer

#80. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

George Friedman

#81. Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

Tara Brach

#82. Even God used silence as a strategy.

Gregory Maguire

#83. 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

#84. In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Gary Hamel

#85. A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.

Marc Forne Molne

#86. I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

James McNerney

#87. According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

Lindsey Graham

#88. You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

Pearl Zhu

#89. What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.

Rick Elkin

#90. We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

Ben Cohen

#91. Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?

Rob Thomas

#92. 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

#93. The Daniel Plan will help you find a personal fitness strategy that you will enjoy.

Rick Warren

#94. When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.

Charlaine Harris

#95. I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive ... (it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

Holland Smith

#96. The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Sara Genn

#97. How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable ... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior ... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.

Steve Maraboli

#98. Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Elaine Scarry

#99. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

#100. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Miyamoto Musashi