Quotes About Strategy

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

Mehr als eine ideologische Strategie ist die Linke eine Lexikographische Taktik.

transformaciones producidas al nivel de las teorías que ella misma barajaba para delinear sus estrategias revolucionarias. Es la eterna dialéctica entre

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.

I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.

There is no reason to sell a rising stock

I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator—the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.

The key to scheduling your time is to focus on objectives, not on activities.

Without an army, what can politicians achieve?

American artillery was now taking its toll on Rommel's Panzers.

In 2006, after 8 years of losses, Wal-Mart beat a retreat from Germany, selling its stores to Metro, Germany's leading retailer, losing $1 billion in the process.

One interesting view of the market knowledge challenge has been described as raising a company's 'market IQ'.

The trouble with discounting is that it tells the whole world you have problems, and builds expectations of more discounts for those who wait.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app ' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

Not all companies have a Purpose—but enduringly successful ones do. Purpose

Leaders do not simply invent a Purpose; they discover it, while at the same time developing a strategy and ensuring that Purpose and strategy support each other.

If a company's reputation-building efforts appear to be somehow separate from its business model, then you suspect they are primarily a corrective to its naturally amoral or immoral inclinations—a medicine to relieve the symptoms but not a cure for the basic disease.

top management's purpose needs to be serving customers, not maximizing profit, if it is to achieve long-term competitive advantage.4

competition between companies is at least in part a competition between different moral ideas.