Quotes About Strategy

Advertising decisions are based on what's best for MyPillow, my employees and my customers.

Companies that are closest to the customers are the ones who are going to lead the industry.

It's always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else.

Cycling is a business.

As 'Ready' did 100 crore-plus business, we will continue to dabble in film production in a big way.

If the short-term decisions you make damage the long term, you should resist those. But there are many short-term decisions that you need to make to be a successful manager.

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.

I started really looking for the pitch I know I can drive, the one I can do damage on.

I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.

Our risk systems and processes - we keep investing and improving them.

In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

Different managers play different systems, and you've got to be able to play in different positions.

In Italy... people think that they can win matches with only systems. I say this is impossible because, otherwise, there wouldn't be players that cost 100 million euros and others who cost 1 million.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was ideal for me.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.