Quotes About Strategy

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.

A team like Golden State makes you change your lineup a little bit.

You can't have mental breakdowns defensively because teams like Golden State and Cleveland will make you pay dearly.

Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money.

No one at Goldman Sachs gets paid out of his or her own P&L. It matters how your business is doing, but it matters more how the firm as a whole is doing.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.

Golf course design is exciting.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.

The best way to sell your company for a lot of money is to have a good company.

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

I know Stipe, I trained with him a little bit. He's a good guy but I feel I match up with him well.

I've done a good job at Bayern, with Guardiola, and I have evolved a lot tactically.

My coaches have done a good job of tightening my skills, where I can dictate a little bit more where the fight is going.

Kyle Korver - got to treat him like J.J. Redick and not let him get good looks.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Every season, players come in and players go, but I think it is good news if top players come in.