Quotes About Strategy

Mike Tyson loved throwing hooks to the body and then coming up, even with the same hand... He knew that he was on the inside, and from there he had the perfect angle to come right up instead of going around the elbows.

At the end, what do you prefer? To play beautifully and stay in the same place, the round of 16, or play ugly and reach a semifinal?

If you want to compete for the Premier League title, you need to win ugly sometimes.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

I don't mind if we play ugly and win, as long as we win.

The business part of the game is ugly.

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

I've had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.

If you've got to win ugly, do it.

If we need to play ugly to win a match, we are going to do that.

The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

Obama is under incredible pressure to supply arms to Ukraine.

If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.

Remember, Donald Trump's Plan A for reelection was to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, and then to use that to go after him.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better... Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don't know what we can do to end the madness.

The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.

Test cricket is the ultimate challenge.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

For me Test cricket is the ultimate.

Best move is probably the flying knee I used in the Ultimate Fighter semi-final v Ross Pointon in 2006.

Clean energy is the ultimate growth strategy for our economy - one that would add millions more good-paying jobs right here in the United States.

As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.