Quotes About Strategy

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers.

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

When you are a face for a long time and you turn heel, your stock value immediately goes up, especially if you're able to pull it off in the ring and on the mic. Then you ride that horse as long as you can. When it starts to falter, and when attendance drops, then you can turn back babyface. And your stock value goes up again.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

If you want to make short-term profits from the stock price, then I am a very bad president. But I don't think I'm so bad for maximizing the long-term value of Nintendo.

I go hunting for my opponents high up the field, and I put stock in physical one-on-ones and winning individual duels.

When you get to stock racing, you have to be a little more patient and 'save your stuff' to be there at the end.

Methinks, that a broker, however good and savvy, will only speak about the stock that interest him after he has bought enough of shares already and is now in the process of booking profits.

I decided that the stock market was not an option for IKEA. I knew that only a long-term perspective could secure our growth plans, and I didn't want IKEA to become dependent on financial institutions.

Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.