Quotes About Strategy

I've known businesspeople who were not realistic thinkers. Here's the good news: they were very positive and had a high degree of hope for their business. Here's the bad news: hope is not a strategy.

Novelist Victor Hugo believed, He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . . . But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what's important, to know what's next, to see how everything relates to the overall vision.

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The first definition of planning that I ever learned was this: planning is predetermining tomorrow's results today.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Great vision precedes great achievement.

If a team is to accomplish its goals, it has to know where it stands.

The Pareto Principle 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities.

Perhaps we have become too analytical to take decisive action. We may be spending too much time studying our problems and not enough time solving them.

successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

Girls play hard to get because guys play hard to keep.

Don't throw money at the problem - walk away from it. You'll be wealthier from it down the road.

Be like a soldier, know when to fight, know when to surrender.

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

You never really know someone until you play UNO with them, and the asshole hits you with a 'Draw 4.'

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

No nation has friends only interests.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

You can't play Games with a girl who made the rules.

Don't mistake my niceness for a weakness... it's a strategy.