Quotes About Strategy

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Smart people focus on the right things.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

You still just got to play your game. No matter where you're at, you've got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that's when you can make some big numbers at the majors.

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

I think you should always have a big team behind you if you are a big brand because it makes you think big.

We knew we had to think global and think big. Most companies that are emerging don't do that.

Honestly, I think big guys are easier to fight. They don't move as fast, they get tired quickly and they're not as technical.

David Silva is not physical but he is still one of the best players in the Premier League because he is a smart thinker.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

We're communicators, we're problem solvers, and we're lateral thinkers, and there's nothing that can't be improved with that. The world needs us, and we want to be needed.

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.