Quotes About Strategy

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

All pieces of the puzzle need to fall in the right place to be a champion team.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

Coaches will say that it's not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

When I was in Italy, I liked to say, no, that the manager, the coach, is like a tailor. A tailor who must build a dress, the best dress for the team.

With my business, the way you make big money is you find a great management team and a good concept, and you stick to it, and you add to it over time. In philanthropy, there was more this idea that once an idea was formulated, you moved along.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.

MindTree has grown into a strong company and has a great leadership team at its helm which can continue to propel the company in the future.

If I believed in it, and it wasn't productive for the team, I wouldn't do it.

I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.

Boxing's a business, and I've got a great team around me who have been looking after me in that sense.