Work Strategy Quotes

#1. And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Foley

#2. If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

Alan W. Kennedy

#3. Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare
not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

Barack Obama

#4. 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

#5. The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

Philip Zimbardo

#6. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

Tony Dovale

#7. There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

William Hague

#8. Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Pat Gillick

#9. Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#10. Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

Al Leiter

#11. To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.

Berti Vogts

#12. I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

Rahm Emanuel

#13. Have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next.

Robyn Carr

#14. The core of a good strategy consists of three components: a problem to solve; some guiding principles to work within; and a set of specific actions.

Anonymous

#15. For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.

Bill Walsh

#16. Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.

Dean Spade

#17. In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization's essential mission or purpose and what is its main strategy to accomplish that?

Bruce Feiler

#18. I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

J.J. Abrams

#19. Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#20. Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.

Archibald Marwizi

#21. Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn't work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

Sharon Weil

#22. Every Ontarian deserves to have a stable, affordable home. As we update our Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, I want to hear your views on how we can make Ontario's housing system work better for you, your family, and your community.

Ted McMeekin

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Ben Silbermann

#28. It is hard to find a good survival strategy that will work simultaneously against multiple threats.

Yuval Noah Harari

#29. All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.

Peter Drucker

#30. The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

Sergei Bubka

#31. Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

Carrie Fisher

#32. Do you work for Starbox? If so, I can't say I dig your new marketing strategy.

Jonathan Maberry

#33. When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

Ava DuVernay

#34. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Vaughan

#35. In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

Peter Thiel

#36. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan

#37. They're around back," she calls down when Julie and I get out. "Planning their strategy." "Good for them," I say, confident that no strategy that isn't grounded in chaos theory is likely to work against a man like me.

Richard Russo

#38. There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

Jim Starlin

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

Kathleen Wynne

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

Max McKeown

#43. Yes, they have all done some good work that has left our world a safer place today. But we need a more direct strategy that can endure for as long as the threat persists without hurting the sovereignty of nations and human rights of the same people it seeks to protect.

Ray Anyasi

#44. You have to be strategic in your action

Sunday Adelaja

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

Paul Arden

#46. At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work.

David Ignatius

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

Phaneesh Murthy

#48. The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.

M.J. Rose

#49. There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#50. 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

#51. Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

Stephen Colbert

#52. Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author positions you strongly upon your platform. It is the passport which will start you on your journey to becoming the recognized authority in the niche or space that you work in or aspire to work in.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#53. Or maybe his reclusiveness was a decisive marketing strategy-if you disappear, people are more interested in your work. You become a legend while you're still alive. Crouching behind a stonewall, or the post under a house ... people are kneeling down to find you.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#54. Stepping into extreme longevity requires strategy, knowledge, spiritual research, emotional release work, inspired dedication, and determination.

David Wolfe

#55. No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Barack Obama

#56. First, guilt-tripping doesn't work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them a realistic and feasible alternative. Second, pragmatism beats purism. Every time.

Mark Lynas

#57. Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

Randy Pausch

#58. 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