Quotes About Strategy

When you're not dealing with superstars, coaches want players to fit their system. But superstars are the system.

Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy - not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement.

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business's ability to extract value from the supply side.

You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out.

I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

You can have the best product, but if you don't have a plan - a label pushing it, the support of a network - you can't make it big with a product. It's all about distribution.

I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

We have to entertain the supporters. It's not only about defending and 'don't concede.' Perhaps most managers focus on defence.

In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting.

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.

I am fully supportive of the strategy and leadership team at Valeant.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.

I suppose that's the way I have always thought about it. Just try to hit the ball. That's what the game's about.

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

In golf, you keep trying to score well when you're ahead. In basketball, they don't quit shooting when they're ahead. In hockey, they don't quit shooting the puck when they're ahead. And in boxing, you don't quit punching when you're ahead. But in football, somehow magically, you're supposed to quit playing when you're ahead.