Thinking Strategy Quotes

#1. I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.

Adam Schiff

#2. Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.

Mary Stewart

#3. I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

Dick Cheney

#4. A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Madeleine Albright

#5. I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.

G-Eazy

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#7. I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

Barack Obama

#8. If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

Scott McNealy

#9. We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy forward, we are doing it to deliver public remit. We're thinking less and less about C4 and more about the brand family.

Tim Duncan

#10. Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

Harbhajan Singh

#11. 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

#12. I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

Henry A. Kissinger

#13. Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

Naomi Wolf

#15. I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

Hillary Clinton

#16. Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song.

Dilip Bathija

#17. I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor.

Scott McNealy

#18. I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

Michael Botticelli

#19. Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

Janny Wurts

#20. Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer's sensibility and methods to match people's needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.

Thomas Lockwood

#21. In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15 apud Thinking Strategically; on the "Intransigence strategy"]

David Schoenbrun

#22. I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

Valentino Rossi

#23. 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

#24. There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

Shia Labeouf

#25. What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Donald Rumsfeld

#26. A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

Warren Buffett

#27. 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

#28. Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

Tim Brown

#29. I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.

Jeb Bush

#30. I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy,

Mary Cheney

#31. We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

Alan Redpath

#32. I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Aleksandar Hemon

#33. Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the old days? To trick the men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day.

Margaret Atwood

#34. Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

Richard Branson

#35. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#36. Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Frank Herbert

#37. 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

#38. Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.

Constantinos C. Markides

#39. Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

Raymond E. Feist

#40. 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

#41. I think that the climate change policy and strategy that we have developed and that we have rolled out thus far is an example of incredibly high-quality work, incredible collaboration by an exceptionally large number of well-informed people.

Rachel Notley

#42. I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn't vote because they didn't like the nominee, wasn't conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?

Rush Limbaugh

#43. 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

#44. I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.

Richard Schmid

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

Pearl Zhu

#46. Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash 'for fun'. Even today, Facebook believe that 'done is better than perfect'.

Max McKeown

#47. Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.

Jack Dangermond

#48. Every difficulty requires new strategy to overcome it.

Lailah Gifty Akita