Quotes About Strategy

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

My business is the analytical framework.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.