Quotes About Strategy

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.