Quotes About Strategy

The winners are the schemers and the ruthless who take what they want, not the suckers standing around hoping for an even break.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. —WILLIAM CLAYTON

You sent one of your own people to get his ass kicked? That's not the way to build brand loyalty.

Sometimes, out in the world . . . being exactly what people want and expect . . . well, maybe it isn't a good thing but it's a smart thing.

As the New Yorker columnist and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has shown, word of mouth can flare up and quickly die or it can reach the 'tipping point' where no force on earth can arrest the product's relentless forward march. The art of the entrepreneur is to get word of mouth to the tipping point.

A melhor maneira de examinar a lucratividade de sua empresa é dividindo-a em segmentos competitivos.

So, if you invent a way of price-simplifying that works, be sure to roll it out internationally before local rivals have a chance to copy it.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all the unimportant opportunities. "The Apple Marketing Philosophy," 19771

star business has two attributes: ? it is the leader in its market niche; and ? the market niche is growing fast, at least 10 per cent a year.

You are more likely to win again where you have won before. You are more likely to win when you are selective about the races you enter.

French participation proved decisive in the Battle of Yorktown. Coordinating strategy with Washington, France sent twenty-nine warships and more than ten thousand troops, ultimately forcing the surrender of British General Cornwallis, which effectively ended the war.

The general strategy was to be conservative when estimating when a book would be shipped, so that surprises would be positive—shipped sooner than the customer expected—rather than negative.

you can solve any large or complex problem by breaking it down into smaller, simpler problems.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

It is essential to a politician that he should have his firmest friends among the fools, or his climbing days will soon be over.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

Defer the actual decision until a decision can be made more responsibly, based on actual knowledge, but not so late that it is not possible to take advantage of the knowledge.

Like Janus, a software architect needs to be a keeper of doors and passageways, spanning the old and the new, incorporating creativity with sound engineering to fulfill todays requirements while planning to meet tomorrow's expectations.

The long-term interests of the software development team are best served when business drives.

diplomats took up the vastly more

reuse is properly a process issue, and individual organizations need to decide whether they believe in its long-term benefits.

Normandy operations, typified by Quesada's armored column cover and Broadhurst's contact cars, thus fulfilled a concept born a quarter-century earlier, amid the mud of Flanders: the notion of the airplane as a partner of the tank, as a "counter antitank" weapon. In that war, then-Colonel J.F.C. Fuller, Great Britain's greatest armor advocate, had recognized that cooperation between air and armor forces was "of incalculable importance.

Any fool can attack an army and die. A wise man doesn't plan an attack; he plans a victory.