Quotes About Strategy

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Blue Sky is the stage where you develop a vision to address that Need and identify what you're going to create. Put another way, the objective of the Blue Sky stage is to create a vision with enough detail to be able to explain, present, and sell it to others.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game.

So, execution is really the critical part of a successful strategy. Getting it done, getting it done right, getting it done better than the next person is far more important than dreaming up new visions of the future.

Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, who'd once said, "When you see your competitor drowning, grab a fire hose and put it in his mouth.

Your brain is your weapon.

Give bad news swiftly, and spread out the good news. Machiavelli." Charpentier

It had taken Beauvoir years to see the power of pausing. And of patience. Of taking a breath to consider all options, all angles, and not simply acting on the most obvious.

You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?

Give bad news swiftly, and spread out the good news. Machiavelli.

Chuck (Schumer) just moo's and follows (Nancy) Pelosi into the cow chute.

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

The longbow would still have been used in the Napoleonic Wars if the raw mathematics of killing effectiveness was all that mattered, since both the longbow's firing rate and its accuracy were much greater than that of a smoothbore musket. But a frightened man, thinking with his midbrain and going "ploink, ploink, ploink" with a bow, doesn't stand a chance against an equally frightened man going "BANG! BANG!" with a musket.

Battles are often won before they are fought.

In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Growth for growth's sake is not a good strategy and, according to Collins, is the beginning of the end. Big is not the same as great, and neither is bigger necessarily more profitable.

To do that, you need to shift your mindset from one that focuses on the practice of law to one that focuses on how the business must work.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with goods they want to acquire.

thinking is always thinking of a potential action.