Quotes About Strategy

It doesn't pay to get into a serious battle over every acorn, but it also doesn't pay to back down over every acorn. It's important to be predictable to a certain extent, but it's also important not to be too predictable.

Almost a year later, in the summer of 2019, the Russians and Chinese began joint air patrols in the Pacific.

Beijing's "Made in China" 2025 strategy, enunciated in 2017, aims to make China a leader in ten high-tech industries.

achieving the objectives of the two-degree world. Pension funds and other investors are now pressing energy companies to explain how their strategies and profitability would fare under the terms of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 was not the first such vision in the neighborhood. It had been preceded a decade earlier by another Vision 2030, this by its neighbor Abu Dhabi, which has been a pacesetter in diversifying.

Vision 2030 itself, launched in 2007, which laid out the overall strategy. The message was that the country needed to diversify its revenue base, upgrade skills, create jobs, and increase the participation of women in the economy. The results have come faster than might have been expected. Two decades ago, almost all of GDP was oil-based. Today, about 60 percent of GDP is non-oil-related. Non-oil exports have risen from just 13 percent of total exports in 2010 to 57 percent in 2018.

For me, there is no strategy that is divorced from profitability

In 2015, Herbert Diess was recruited away from BMW to lead the Volkswagen car group with a new agenda. One of his first questions was, What is Volkswagen's electric car strategy? His question went beyond diesel versus gasoline to a challenge that would be closing in on all European automakers.

By the time they were done, EOG's land men had acquired half a million acres at $400 an acre. EOG thought it had acquired almost a billion barrels of oil.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.

The approach to combat and everyday life should be the same.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

In any sphere of our life, if we learn to combine our prayers with actions, we will have victory

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.