Quotes About Strategy

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class.

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

Every job that you take, the term that you should always include is, 'How can I be involved in the strategic projects that are critical to the future of the company?' You ask that question. It's a great 'how' question.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.