Quotes About Strategy

It's smarter to see your big-idea projects as part of a system to improve your energy, contacts, and skills.

making a million dollars is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.

Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.

Systems have no deadlines, and on any given day you probably can't tell if they're moving you in the right direction

A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick

Battle platforms were a recent addition to Cruz's arsenal. They were the size of cities, floating on the ocean

I sometimes describe this situation in a more generic sense as having a system instead of a goal. A goal is, by definition, one way to win and infinite ways to lose. A good system gives you lots of ways to win and far fewer ways to fail.

great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick the Delusion That Works When my dog, Snickers, wants to play fetch in the backyard, she follows me around and stares into my eyes with freakish intensity, as if using her Jedi doggy powers on me.

Humans will always think in terms of goals. Our brains are wired that way. But goals make sense only if you also have a system that moves you in the right direction.

But business writers will recognize Trump's strategy as what I will call the new-CEO move. Smart CEOs try to create visible victories within days of taking the job, to set the tone. It's all about the psychology.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Success isn't magic; it's generally the product of picking a good system and following it until luck finds you.

My failure taught me to seek opportunities in which I had an advantage.

I want to be clear that I'm not expressing a preference for ignoring facts. I'm simply saying that a Master Persuader can do it and still come out ahead, no matter how many times the media points out the errors.

Losers have goals, winners have systems

By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the total number of men Lawrence had projected would be needed to secure Alexandretta.

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.

you can never plan well enough. Life will always outwit you.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness? Alek glared at the man. We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic.