Quotes About Strategy

Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant—fist, mouse—palm, and ant—little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.

Does the salesman like this information? Yes, because you've exposed your deadline to him without knowing his.

Because so many things are negotiable doesn't mean that you or I should negotiate all the time. If you were to ask me, "Do you negotiate with one-price stores? Do you negotiate with Sears?

I'd be perfectly frank with you and reply, "One of my life strategies is never to go into Sears.

The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are.

Herbert George Jenkins

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

Trade as well as war has changed aspect—both are now fought at long range.

The knottiest problems in trade are: 1—The problem of location. 2—The problem of getting the crowds. 3—The problem of keeping the crowds. 4—The problem of minimizing fixed expenses. 5—The problem of creating a valuable good will.

Advertising is not a luxury nor a debatable policy.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

market penetration quickly and ignite a contagion effect as positive feedback about the product spreads. Penetration is also the recommended strategy if there are strong experience curve effect s or economies of scale .

the customers' willingness to pay . I recommend to consider unbundling under these conditions:

all face two basic and interrelated questions: What to? How to?

But going against the mkt., everything is turned on its head: the more a stock is depreciated, the larger the profit, and vice versa.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.