Quotes About Strategy

Part of my success was rooted in psychology.

The psychology of the Klitschkos is to be nice to you before the fight and then destroy you in the ring. With them it's just business.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.

I'll go to my grave saying a gimmick is not good public policy.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

If I were to publicly give away my secrets, I'd be dumb. I am an intelligent woman who is focused on the prize.

In many ways, Ahmed Patel was the mind of Sonia Gandhi. Nearly everything we know about her publicly was constructed or revealed with his enabling.

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and then maybe I bring sort of my knowledge of power into play.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.

When I realized that I can invest in my own marketing and do exactly what I think needs to be done - well, then it just feels like, what is the benefit of having a publisher?

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.

Publishers should use the paperback side to leverage the ebook side.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

I think I'm a good passer and can make plays, but there's definitely a knack to putting the puck in the net.