Quotes About Strategy

The questions Wile E. Coyote—and all business leaders—must ask themselves are these: How has my environment changed? How soon must I stop doing what I have been doing? And how do I change course?

Once a year, lock your office door and leave for a "think week"—ideally to a remote location with ample exposure to Mother Nature—and ruminate about the "day after tomorrow.

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

In one of his most important lessons, he told his sons that conquering an army is not the same as conquering a nation. You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

The mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values describe the behaviors that will get you there.

Those who know why will always beat those who know how." Here's

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Julius Caesar BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS

Think carefully about what you say, Assassin

As she cut across the parking lot, Madison was nearly mowed down by an ice blue BMW. Reed Rawlings was the madman behind the wheel. He screeched to a stop right in front of her. "Reed, are you trying to kill the competition?" she shouted. "Is that your strategy?" "Not a bad idea," Reed said, laughing as he rolled down his window. "Wish I'd thought of it.

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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.