Quotes About Strategy

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It's not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.

Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia's greatest national security policy successes.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

You don't need a Ph.D. in mathematics to be a successful poker player.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.

If the incumbent or his party has been discredited sufficiently, the challenger can run a successful, content-free campaign.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

To be a successful fighter now, you have to go to a camp.

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.