Quotes About Strategy

the relationship between strategic degrees of freedom and signal strength is practically inverse. In the unfair way in which life operates, the moment at which you have the richest, most trustworthy information is often the moment at which you have the least power to change the story told by that information.

it decided last year to become a 'broad energy' firm, investing up to 15–20 percent of annual capital expenditure in 'new energy solutions' by 2030, mostly in offshore wind.

Life without a plan is a life without expectations.

Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.

Good customer segments are a who-where pair. If you don't know where to go to find your customers, keep slicing your segment into smaller pieces until you do.

Rule 1: You can't make a good buying decision when you're excited. • Rule 2: You can't make a good selling decision when you're afraid.

Most big decisions are made up of lots of much smaller decisions. Decisions take split-nanoseconds to make but can take years to prepare for. Reduce the weight and size of decisions by breaking them down, knowing you will make lots of good (small) ones and a few bad (small) ones, along your journey to success. So start making more (small) decisions.

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão derrotaria um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha". Hooyah.

We spend time as investors thinking about the ability to accelerate or sustain elevated growth, as well as working with management teams to try and minimize the execution risk associated with that growth.

If you can't come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.

Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

When the players will never meet again, the strategy of defection is the only stable strategy.

What accounts for TIT FOR TAT's robust success is its combination of being nice, retaliatory, forgiving, and clear. Its

What makes it possible for cooperation to emerge is the fact that the players might meet again

Lesson One was: "Be nice and forgiving." Lesson Two was more exploitative: "If others are going to be nice and forgiving, it pays to try to take advantage of them.

The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of reciprocal concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

You use your cuts to get people to swing attention to the parts of your message you really want them to focus on.

Now, during the tourist season, she first tries to speed the sale of an item that has been difficult to move by increasing its price substantially.