Quotes About Strategy

The studio should not have released this film.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

Watching routes and studying routes, you can learn stuff that way or you can learn blocking schemes on blitzes. You never know what you can learn just sitting back from behind and watching.

You spend your entire time 24 hours a day thinking about when is the next game, and you put together the plan and that's a lot of fun. When the game's ready to go, it's just exciting to see how all your studying is going to pay off.

It's not always about reach, it's about footwork, it's being fast, in and out, stuff like that.

If you play against a Peyton Manning, that's a great quarterback, but I'd rather have that quarterback that stays still. You have a better chance of getting to him. The mobile quarterbacks, they do a lot of different stuff.

Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

I did have a very determined idea of making money. I was quite savvy about that. And that was my most basic lesson. You do have to understand the economics. It's pointless putting in all that work and losing money. If you're not making a profit you're stuffed.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

When you start off a T20 innings you want someone who is going to be hitting the top of off stump, causing problems and being quite disciplined with the ball.

There's nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that's 50 percent stupid.

Microsoft isn't stupid.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.