Quotes About Strategy

Napoleon rarely marched off to battle without hundreds of cases of Moët & Chandon in tow. "I drink champagne when I win," he said, "and I drink champagne when I lose.

Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production; using people as a solution to a poor process multiplies problems.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

most people spend most of their time on defense, in reactive mode, in playing with the cards they got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Instead

When you're thinking of how to make your business bigger, it's tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.

In cooking—as in business and war—hope for the best but plan for the worst.

The best defense is a good offense. —DAN GABLE, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling and the most successful coach in history; personal record: 299–6–3, with 182 pins

So red teaming is: You take people who aren't wedded to the plan and [ask them,] 'How would you disrupt this plan or how would you defeat this plan?' If you have a very thoughtful red team, you'll produce stunning results.

Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe." —Abraham Lincoln

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. —CHINESE PROVERB

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

sometimes it pays to model the outliers, not flatten them into averages. This isn't limited to business.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." —Polish proverb

The best defense is a good offense. —DAN GABLE, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling

we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The

Losers react, leaders anticipate.

D: To reach the big pay-off, whether IPO, acquisition, retirement, or other pot of gold. NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

para afrontar cualquier posible contingencia».

método de las afirmaciones de Scott Adams

What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990. No quieres ser la decimosegunda empresa de paneles solares de la última década. Y no quieres ser la enésima empresa de ninguna tendencia en particular.

La cuestión, por tanto, es: ¿Cómo consigo alcanzar el estilo de vida de libertad absoluta que tienen los millonarios sin tener un millón de dólares de partida?