Quotes About Strategy

Everything outside of here is vulnerable, but this tower, this room, is where we can make a stand if we have to. This is our Alamo. Everybody died at the Alamo. What's the midway, the Little Big Horn? Ethan looked at her, exasperated. She shrugged. I'm just saying that ifyou want to rally the troops, avoid the A word.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?

Much better to figure out where the marketplace is going to be in a few years, focus on providing a solution to that, and let the market forces catch up to you.

Because you'll go through so many changes, I don't think it pays off to overanalyze the first business plan, for example. The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

Apparently sprinters reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It's that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That's when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100% of its employees were either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work.

When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

The United States and India can work together.

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Plan you work and work your plan.