Quotes About Strategy

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.

A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

I think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.

Experience is useful in Test Cricket.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

The 'vote for me because the other guy is scary,' nana-nana-poo-poo stuff I just find useless.

Amassing a user base is a lot harder than one might think.

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.

Samsung and Apple seem to think that they're going to provide everything. Apple believes services will drive hardware, while Google wants to own each user regardless of hardware, so you have differing philosophies.

We built our business on creativity, and we're going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.

Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.