Quotes About Strategy

POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

If I was a President and wanted something I would claim I didn't want it. Congress has not given any President anything he wanted in the last 10 years. Be against anything and then he is sure to get it.

you don't know the game of buying brains. I do. That's my specialty. I'm going to make money out of them

you can't have an effective bonus program if you don't have a forecasting system that's taking people forward to where they want

KEY POINT: If you don't stabilize a sales forecast, you can't control your company. If you control a forecast, you control the world.

one reason we like liquidity as a Balance-Sheet goal. It greatly increases the odds that we will have the cash we need to pay bonuses and do a lot of other things.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought

Schwatzendale pulled at his chin. He mused. "There is stuff here which requires sober over-thinking." Moncrief waved away the idea. "No need! I have done all necessary thinking. The scheme is excellent!

Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph

Following the example of Genghis Khan, the early Mongol rulers clearly recognized that knowledge constituted their most potent weapon, and controlling the flow of information served as their organizing principle. Genghis

Genghis Khan sought to further undermine his enemies by exploiting any internal social turmoil or rift he could identify. In

Genghis Khan always honored his word. Those who surrendered suffered no harm, and he treated them well. In turn, he used this fair treatment as a means of encouraging other cities to surrender.

Jack Weatherford

drowned in the sea of annihilation." Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?

lo que es el marketing en esencia: el producto adecuado, en el lugar adecuado, al precio adecuado, con el mensaje adecuado, ofrecido por el equipo adecuado.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement it like a hell.

Y, claro, todo esto nos lleva a la pregunta de qué es exactamente la alineación. La respuesta es misión, comportamientos y consecuencias.

Forget the arduous, intellectualized number crunching and data grinding that gurus say you have to go through to get strategy right. Forget the scenario planning, yearlong studies, and hundred-plus-page reports. They're time-consuming and expensive, and you just don't need them. In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Look, anyone can manage for the short term—just keep squeezing the lemon. And anyone can manage for the long—just keep dreaming. You were made a leader because someone believed you could squeeze and dream at the same time.

I always follow 4E's wrapped in a 'P

The wise man, the dragon rumbled, does not play games with dragons.

in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.

What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai?" "It is his mind, Elder Brother," I said.