Quotes About Strategy

Once you start realising where you are, then you can start realising what you have to do to get the best results.

To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

Obviously you have to be realistic. You have to figure out how you can succeed.

I'm not stupid, and the people around me aren't stupid. You can't ignore the economic realities of the ways that business is run and the way clients think.

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

You gotta have a gimmick.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.

I think you gotta go forward with the things you campaigned on.

I'm not a guy that's going to shoot 10 3s a game - I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.

If I want any shot at getting on the floor, I gotta know what I'm doing defensively.

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

The point system certainly governs a Grandmaster's decisions, but it can be outweighed in any given position by more important factors.

My plan is to govern as long as I can.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

In order to govern, you have to win.