Quotes About Strategy

El distintivo de una empresa innovadora no es solo ser la primera en tener nuevas ideas, también es saber cómo dar un salto al frente cuando se encuentra rezagada.

Decidir qué es lo que no se debe hacer es tan importante como decidir qué se debe hacer —comentó—. Esto es válido para las empresas y es válido para los productos.

Bismarck urged that foreign policy had to be based not on sentiment but on an assessment of strength," Kissinger wrote. That would also become one of Kissinger's guiding principles.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

With a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics, William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William F. Halsey, Jr., built the modern United States Navy and won World War II on the seas. Each

On one foggy, misty night, King ordered the air groups from the Lexington and Saratoga to launch simultaneously well after sunset. The chaos was predictable but, in King's mind, instructional.

Other men would get to command the spear point; Nimitz would calmly and diligently manage the arm that held the spear.

Your lordship's servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him.

there are stratagems in law as well as war.

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots—but I stay around those spots.")