Quotes About Strategy

That's the way we want to go. Make smaller targets and then step by step developing.

As a captain, I don't have long-term targets in my mind as it is better to go with short targets.

There is not a shortage of assets in northern Syria but a shortage of targets.

Paul Nixon taught me to break a run chase down into little targets. I suppose I stole his cues and took them into my own game.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.

An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.

My task will remain incomplete until a BJP chief minister is installed in Lucknow.

A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got here and where we need to go.

Whatever the circumstances, my main task is always going to be just to win the game.

Fonseca allows me to play both offensively and defensively, and my main task is to change the direction of attacking moves.

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

I taught my executive team how to argue.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I'm taught to adapt and exploit every situation in the ring.

Chess taught me patience.