Quotes About Strategy

The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

All companies - and not just startups - face the same eternal challenge: resource allocation.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.

Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

What is SOCOM's mission statement in two sentences? Most people I know in SOF cannot recite it. If it's not clear from the bottom up, then it's a problem.

I would never bring in a player to make a statement.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

We have been very reluctant to make statements about where the industry is going to go. The Wrangler is going hybrid in 2020. We don't make much noise about that, but it will happen.

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.