Quotes About Strategy

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

We have the best military in the world.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.