Quotes About Strategy

Gain people's emotional commitment to the strategy Any strategy, however brilliant, will fail unless people understand it and are emotionally committed to its success. Therefore it is crucial to explain why the strategy is important to the organisation and the individual.

The choice of strategy The development of strategy involves making decisions about: Who to target as customers (and who to avoid targeting). What products or services to offer. How to undertake related activities efficiently.

Create a unique strategic position for the business Focus on who your customers are, the attractiveness of your offer to them (known as the value proposition), and how you can connect the two as efficiently as possible.

TO SUCCEED, A BUSINESS'S STRATEGY needs to be relevant to its employees, shareholders and customers. As well as increasing its profitability and value and meeting any other goals that may be set, the strategy also needs to take account of present realities and future trends. The context in which strategy is developed and implemented will determine its success.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

there is the potential for flushing an enemy out into the open not by seizing any particular objective, but simply through placing a presence in his rear.

Surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander.

don't waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

If you have timed the movement correctly, your first commitment will show you a profit at the start.

Old Baron Rothschild's recipe for wealth winning applies with greater force than ever to speculation. Somebody asked him if making money in the Bourse was not a very difficult matter and he replied that, on the contrary, he thought that it was very easy… "I will tell you my secret if you wish. It is this: I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor. "Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?" "I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure...a great deal of manure." Rolf started to laugh again.

you've got to be investing today in what your future's going to be 5 or 10 years out.

Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business

The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

Killing civilians and destroying infrastructure are not typically a terrorist organization's end goals. Rather, they are a means to provoke a political reaction.

Ja pils?tu bombard?jam m?s, tad t? ir strat??iska nepieciešam?ba; ja to dara citi, tad ne??l?ga noziedz?ba.

Every full grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous.

I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.