Winning Strategy Quotes

#1. 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

#2. No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

Mark Zandi

#3. For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

Carmen Busquets

#4. Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldn't even consider doing.

Jamais Cascio

#5. The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.

Peter Watts

#6. First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

Gil Blake

#7. Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

Karl Rove

#8. By making the surface highly crenellated and wiggly we can make the area enclosing a given volume larger and larger. This is a winning strategy that living systems have adapted to exploit.

Anonymous

#9. 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

#10. There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.

Philip Kotler

#11. The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

Bobby Jindal

#12. Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy.

Diane Ackerman

#13. When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece ... in order to win.

Lionel Suggs

#14. Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Stephen Covey

#15. The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

Colin Powell

#16. No one can take the shot for you.

Lorii Myers

#17. It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

Charles M. Schulz

#19. Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Dick Morris

#20. Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there's a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

Elon Musk

#21. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

Max McKeown

#22. 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

#23. 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.

#24. Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

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

Julius Caesar

#26. Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

Will Advise

#27. 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

#28. If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.

Amit Ray

#29. One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Paul Begala

#30. People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

Phil McGraw

#31. Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

David Hackworth

#32. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Bobby Jindal

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

Aleksandar Hemon

#34. Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Max McKeown

#35. We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

Ezra Taft Benson

#36. The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

Frederick Lenz

#37. Clarity enables Empowerment

Millen Livis

#38. Strategy is not focused on ROI, but on winning.

Paul Shannon

#39. We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.

Fjordman

#40. Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

Tom Peters

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

Max McKeown

#42. The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

Claude C. Hopkins

#43. In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

Scott Raab

#44. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

Tony Blair