Top 35 Strategic Business Quotes
#1. Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
Bill Gates
#2. By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.
Pearl Zhu
#3. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.
Jack Welch
#5. While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.
Mickey Drexler
#6. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Sue Tetzlaff
#7. The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#8. Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
Nathan Myhrvold
#9. It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
James C. Collins
#10. If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.
Alan W. Kennedy
#11. One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.
Stephen Saad
#12. The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.
Ryan Lilly
#13. You can either learn to live with your Kryptonite or you can conquer it. Do what others don't and you will have a distinct strategic advantage.
James Woosley
#14. A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.
Pearl Zhu
#15. A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end
Andrew S. Grove
#16. If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell.
Richard Moran
#17. When it comes to busines ... I mean your business. Always remember you are the leader of your businesnot the Manager. You are the inspiration of your organization, you are the core that moves your business forward ... and this is your added value as a business owner.
Sameh Elsayed
#18. It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.
Stephen Gillett
#19. Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
Carol Roth
#21. 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
#22. Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science.
Pearl Zhu
#23. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!
Nancy Tellem
#24. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
Max McKeown
#25. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
Andrew Griffin
#26. My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.
John Maeda
#27. Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
Pearl Zhu
#28. We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.
Herb Kelleher
#29. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#30. The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.
Sun Tzu
#31. strategic dementia is a loss of the ability to make rational business decisions because you are not sure of your strategy.
Christopher Surdak
#32. Critical questions from inside and outside the organization should essentially center on: How will this decision promote or prevent the strategic intent, and the corporate mission and values? What impact will this decision have on individual development (business value/social contribution)? Where do
Julia Sloan
#34. The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.
John Sculley
#35. When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
