Quotes About Strategy

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Watch the product life cycle; but more important, watch the market life cycle.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

Our largest army in 1861 was that of the Potomac. It had been formed by the junction of the forces under General J. E. Johnston with those under General P. G. T. Beauregard, with such additions as could be hurriedly sent forward to meet the enemy on the field of Manassas.

As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.

Limited wars were not to be considered lesser-included cases. The ability to deter, fight, and win in the least likely contingencies — total wars —did not necessarily ensure the ability to deter, fight, and win in the most likely contingencies — limited wars.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

El método bíblico para atraer a los pecadores a Cristo y a su iglesia no se encuentra en estrategias de mercadeo superficiales, sino mostrando la verdad, pureza y unidad (1 Corintios 14:23-25, Juan 13:35, 1 Pedro 3:1).

A vision without execution is an hallucination.

Stop thinking of your product as a commodity.

were also among the least successful, and he provided advice about how to be generous without being a patsy.

Dumping technology on a problem is rarely an effective solution.

We don't reject informal talk, formal presentations, and quantitative analysis. These are often important precursors to intelligent action. It's just that they are not substitutes for action.

The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.

Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.

The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.

As a presidential candidate, Trump continued working on a plan to build in Russia.

By later in 2016, the IRA completed its transformation. The company was no longer sowing random chaos but rather focused on achieving a specific goal—winning the presidency for Donald Trump.

People like the Koch brothers and the Coors beer family and other tycoons like that -- they're taking the long view, and this is what the long view is. They are diabolically patient. And they've already gotten way more of what they wanted than they ever dreamed possible. This is the real corporate coup, slow but sure. And the tank has been slowly but surely crushing us at least since Reagan, possibly even since Carter. Every once in a while they step on the gas.

you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

You can only win if you know the rules of the game.