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Quotes About Strategy

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.
~ Garry Kasparov
Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.
~ Tim Cook
My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.
~ Marc Andreessen
Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
~ Mao Zedong
All good performance starts with clear goals.
~ Ken Blanchard
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
~ Richard Stallman
I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
~ Jan Carlzon
Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
~ Lawrence Bossidy
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Good planning is the foundation of success for almost any project. Start by getting clear on your goal.
~ Jude Bijou
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
~ Wang Jianlin
If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.
~ Joel Spolsky
What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.
~ Jimmy Hill
A goal without a method is nonsense.
~ W. Edwards Deming
The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.
~ Martin O'Neill
Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.
~ Peter Thiel
A goal without an action plan is a daydream.
~ Nathaniel Branden
We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.
~ Eli Manning
Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.
~ John Mearsheimer
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
~ C. K. Prahalad
Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.
~ Juli Inkster
My goal is to keep him away from that and play the match on my terms so that I can be aggressive and not hesitate.
~ Milos Raonic