Quotes About Strategy

After I left the Nets, I found out what it takes to not just make the Finals, but to win a championship. I think I have a sense now of how you build a championship structure and how you maintain that structure.

Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.

You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

The Rockets know we can't get too up with a 2-0 lead because we've had some struggles in the past with that.

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

Even in motocross, you're struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

When we come into the NSC, everybody has different opinions. At the end of the day, we present the president with all the facts. We let him make the decision. And we all, as a team, go out and support that decision.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

I get a lot of front ball in a position that, normally, the opponent's defense is making the move outwards, and our attackers are getting in.

It's always positive to have more of the ball than the opponent, but you have to do something with it.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

It helps to be able to see things before your opponent. In futsal, you have less time to think so make decisions faster than most. You know what is coming. It may not always work, but an understanding is generated through futsal.

If the opponent makes a foul close to their own goal, it's a chance for us. I take it like this.

The point in tennis is to take the ball as early as possible and take time away from your opponent.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

When you're leading 4-1, the opponent has nothing to lose.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

The game is a war, and in a war you fight. My opponent is just the director of the opponent's army.