Quotes About Strategy

La postergación es la estrategia que apadrina el miedo y la pereza de los incapaces.

La resistencia paciente del budista no es pasividad sino una estrategia para que los pensamientos y las emociones negativas no se apoderen de la mente y alteren el comportamiento. La asertividad, además de proteger nuestro amor propio, nos permite modular la violencia interior, para acceder a la dignidad de una manera inteligente.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

When I used to take tests in college, I would be very anxious," he told me. "So I came up with a process whereby I would always answer the more obvious questions first. Then, as my anxiety would lessen, I'd start to answer more of the questions that required real thinking.

The most important thing business leaders must do today is to be the 'chief question-asker' for their organization," says the consultant Dev Patnaik of Jump Associates. However, Patnaik adds a cautionary note: "The first thing most leaders need to realize is, they're really bad at asking questions.

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K.

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

Time in the market is better than timing the market.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.