Quotes About Strategy

I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

As the lead rider in the team you always have to keep your eyes on the team you're pursuing - it's called the pursuit for good reason.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

We find it much better not to try and take the Godrej brand across, but use very strong brands we have acquired in different geographies and push them.

When a team goes down to 10 men, it makes you go and attack the game, push bodies forward, and create extra numbers.

We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

I think, with a negotiation, you have to go in knowing what you want, knowing what your bottom line is, and knowing what you might accept if you're absolutely pushed.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

You will always have politics being pushed towards multiracial politics because you have to field a team.

I watched guys who were professional fighters hit each other 30 times, and it still didn't go anywhere. I thought 'that wasn't very effective' But I saw if you got someone in a choke, you can end a fight in seconds, and I pushed toward that.

When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.

Revenue is not where the focus of the company is at. We are focused on pushing out cool products like our analytics.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

The Chinese are quite clear what their interests are and very consistent on pushing their interests.

I've always enjoyed getting forward, pushing up-field to help us in our attacks, but I think you can still do that from a central position, too. You don't have to sit deep all the time.

Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer.

I've always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It's never good to put all of your efforts and all of your time and all of your financial resources into just one project. Diversification is key for any individual and any business.