Strategy Business Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If one can call anticipation of enemy reactions based on a lifetime of professional training and on thinking and application "intuition," he had it ... He was a professional soldier, a student of history

William Duggan

#3. Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Sun Tzu

#4. A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

Rod Blagojevich

#5. I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#6. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

Sun Tzu

#7. Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

Paul Arden

#8. 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

#9. And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.

David Brier

#10. It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.

Herbert Hainer

#11. A business that doesn't implement a strategy of automation in the client acquisition process is doomed to have slow growth, even puts itself at risk of declining

Bob Mangat

#12. The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points;

Sun Tzu

#13. The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

Sun Tzu

#14. Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

John Green

#15. When you know your enemy is invincible,
run and hide, or may do business with him.

Toba Beta

#16. See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

James Daly

#17. Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

David Brier

#18. Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.

David Livermore

#19. 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

#20. Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

David Brier

#21. A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

Jack Welch

#22. Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

Howard Schultz

#23. Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.

Phaneesh Murthy

#24. Networks do not offer a miracle drug, a strategy that makes you invincible in any business environment. The truly important role networks play is in helping existing organizations adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. The very concept of network implies a multidimensional approach.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#25. My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

Henry Sy

#26. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

David Brier

#27. Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

Sun Tzu

#28. The business capability coherence is the decisive factor for the success of strategy implementation.

Pearl Zhu

#29. Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

David Brier

#30. The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

Sun Tzu

#31. Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes
while no becoming an extremist ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**
(emphasis by author)
[2002] p.25f

Gary Hamel

#32. Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

Richard Branson

#33. 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

#34. Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

Sun Tzu

#35. Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Sun Tzu

#36. Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

Robert Kiyosaki

#37. We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

Baba Kalyani

#38. In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

Desiree Rogers

#39. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.

Paul Gibbons

#40. The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Bill Taylor

#41. There are no keys to success - only tools.

Criss Jami

#42. The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

Henry Mintzberg

#43. I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord with the unforeseen shape of the events.

William Duggan

#44. When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

Jack McDevitt

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

Pearl Zhu

#46. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Sun Tzu

#47. To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Sun Tzu

#48. Any change holds an opportunity.

Daniel Egger

#49. All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
[2002] p.46

Gary Hamel

#50. You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

Sun Tzu

#51. Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

David Brier

#52. Strategy execution doesn't go for perfect, it's the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#53. You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Paul R. Niven

#54. Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Yogi Berra

#55. Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Sun Tzu

#56. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Sun Tzu

#57. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...

Max McKeown

#58. 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

#59. I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

Vinod Khosla

#60. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Paul Gibbons

#61. A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael LeBoeuf

#62. Leaders must (1) define the business of the business, (2) create a winning strategy, (3) communicate persuasively, (4) behave with integrity, (5) respect others, and (6) act.

Judith M Bardwick

#63. Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Sun Tzu

#64. Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Roth

#65. The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#66. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Bill Gates

#67. Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

Jack Welch

#68. Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#69. You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

John Key

#70. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Sun Tzu

#71. Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

Bob Schmetterer

#72. 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

#73. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

#74. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Crystal Woods

#75. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

#76. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

#77. No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

Reid Hoffman

#78. If his forces are united, separate them.

Sun Tzu

#79. strategic dementia is a loss of the ability to make rational business decisions because you are not sure of your strategy.

Christopher Surdak

#80. Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

Amah Lambert

#81. So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

Sun Tzu

#82. When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

Sun Tzu

#83. Business, we use the term "judo strategy" to describe a particular way of competing. A judo approach to competition emphasizes

Anonymous

#84. When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Sun Tzu

#85. Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

Ofra Strauss

#86. For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

William M. Daley

#87. In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

Sun Tzu

#88. So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.

David Brier

#89. 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

#90. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

David Brier

#91. In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.

Matthew Stewart

#92. Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

Patrick Dixon

#93. Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Jamie Dimon

#94. Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

Sun Tzu

#95. 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

#96. The high performing organizational culture and business capability coherence are the decisive factors for the success of strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu

#97. A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

David A. Aaker

#98. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Alice Schroeder

#99. I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

Michael Dell

#100. Life is made up of dots

David Brier