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Quotes About Strategy

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
~ Hilary Rosen
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
~ Isaac Hanson
Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
~ Eugene Odum
It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
~ Grantland Rice
Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
~ Laozi
Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
~ Napoleon Hill
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
~ Garry Kasparov
It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.
~ Charlie Munger
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.
~ Warren Buffett
That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.
~ Darren Clarke
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.
~ Harriet Lerner
The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.
~ Adam Schlesinger
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Patience is the key to any battle.
~ Ieyasu Tokugawa
Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
~ J. Paul Getty
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
~ Steve Ballmer
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.
~ Robert Herjavec
Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business
~ Henry Ford