Quotes About Strategy

Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

Drawing up plans such as these diagrams is the easy part. I did it thousands of times. Creating a successful organization with people who execute the plans at a level of Competitive Greatness—now, that's the challenge of leadership.

Long-Term Success Requires Short-Term Focus.

There are no big things, only an accumulation of many little things. Remove enough rivets and the wing falls off. However, it is up to you, the leader, to identify the correct rivets and determine how much attention each will be given. Do this correctly and your organization will survive flying through even the most turbulent competitive storm.

The strategic optionalities may include, among other things, the option to expand, contract, abandon, switch, choose, and so forth. Based on the identification of strategic optionalities that exist for each project or at each stage of the project, the analyst can then choose from a list of options to analyze in more detail.

On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step.

There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

Keep the competitive leads warm, get your deal oversubscribed, because until your deal is done, it's just a nice fantasy in your head

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

I warned you I like to play games.

Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.

Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?

Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.