Quotes About Strategy

When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

Chinese... companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.

In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.

Politics is like a running race and a true champion will run the race with the competitors and emerge victoriously.

I can't complain about the way I've been marketed because it's been so successful.

I know how the game works. If I field one, then the other complains. It's always the same.

You've just got to play complementary football; you've just got to wait your time.

We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

Business isn't complicated; we complicate business.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

To score three goals and not concede any is always interesting for a coach.

The new-ball bowlers usually bowl seven to eight overs before we spinners come into the attack, and the pressure they build on the batsmen with the new ball - they concede not more than 20-25 runs - helps us plan our line of attack as to where to bowl to maintain that pressure.

We sell to businesses who sell other stuff, so we're just going to concentrate on doing that.