Quotes About Strategy

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

It is always your next move.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.