Quotes About Strategy

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1 000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy

Having a long-term plan--and not casting it aside--is the key to dealing with our fear of loss (loss aversion).

Many of the best and most conspicuous examples of strategic principles come from companies that were founded on them, companies such as eBay, Dell, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart ("Low prices, every day"). The founders of those companies espoused a clear guiding principle that summarized the essence of what would become a full-blown business strategy.

that a corporate strategy represents a plan to effectively allocate scarce resources to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

just as a brilliant strategy is worthless unless it is implemented, a powerful strategic principle is of no use unless it is communicated effectively. When CEO Jack Welch talks about aligning employees around GE's strategy and values, he emphasizes the need for consistency, simplicity, and repetition.

in general, strategy should be reviewed every quarter and updated every year.

When a strategic principle is well crafted and effectively communicated, managers at all levels can be trusted to make decisions that advance rather than undermine company strategy.

GLOBE initiative,

Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams; the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management; action with orchestration is leadership.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.