Quotes About Strategy

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

El coste de perder a vuestros clientes más fieles para luego tener que intentar recuperarlos en un momento económico tan bajo como el presente será mucho mayor que el coste de invertir en ellos e intentar no perderlos».

Our strategy was to do more of what had worked in the past. But we were not pushing ourselves to do things better or differently. We were not innovating in lasting ways. We were venturing into unrelated businesses like entertainment. And we were pushing products that deviated too far from the core coffee experience.

If you would have asked the coach if he'd like to have a team of players like me, skilled guys who could skate, pass and shoot, play hard, but clean or a team full of players like Billy, who weren't the most skilled, but who would intimidate and attempt to put an opponent through the boards, he tell you in a nanosecond he'd want a team full of "Billys.

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—will abandon the disastrous policies of the Obama years.

Never sell a dull market." I believe that this was intended for bull markets, for it appears just as dangerous to "buy a dull market"—during a bear market.

Without identifying the overall destination of the journey, together with the strategic direction and the necessary compass adopted for reaching it, there can be no hope of success."8

The Blue Shell is the cruel tax of gaming, the welfare queen of kart racing. God damn you kids today. We used to have to win a race to win it.

The Blue Shell is everything that's wrong with America.

Directing visitors from pay-per-click advertising to your home page is one of the most basic errors and wastes of money in online marketing.

When you first start email marketing, concentrate on one persona only. You can add others later.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

That wallpaper. touching it like that, was one of my protection tricks

Again we take our cue from Strunk and White: "Before beginning to compose something, gauge the nature and extent of the enterprise, and work from a suitable design…

Ideological muddle-headedness, political

Hitler was frank about the need to focus all energy on one goal, on attacking a single enemy to avoid fragmentation and disunity. 'The art of all great popular leaders,' he proclaimed, 'consisted at all times in concentrating the attention of the masses on a single enemy.

Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich.

I always have a plan.

On the qualities required of naval officers, Roosevelt was outspoken: "They must have skill in handling the ships, skill in tactics, skill in strategy . . . the dogged ability to bear punishment, the power and desire to inflict it, the daring, the resolution, the willingness to take risks and incur responsibilities which have been possessed by the great captains of all ages, and without which no man can ever hope to stand in the front rank of fighting men.

But thirty years after that, at the battle of Pydna in 168, the Roman general Aemilius Paullus remarked he had never been so fearful as when he faced the Macedonian phalanx in battle array (pp. 166–167).

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.