Quotes About Strategy

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.