Quotes About Strategy

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour.

Desires and wishes don't lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat.

Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!

Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it.

Great achievers are great thinkers and great thinkers, are great achievers.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious

The issue is becoming so absorbed in positioning ourselves ahead of everyone else that life becomes nothing more than an endless strategy.

I don't usually play games. I got added to one and was played.When I realize the creator I will be the coach, now that I've mastered the game.

he once played 45 games of chess simultaneously. He won 39 of these games, drew four, and lost two. While that is amazing in its own right, the truly phenomenal part is that he played all 45 games in all 11 hours blindfolded. You did not read that wrong. Najdorf never physically saw any of the chessboards or pieces; he played each game in his mind.

Not many people in Washington are thinking beyond the 2016 presidential election. It is sometimes argued that an American administration operates strategically for only about six months, at the beginning of its second year—after it has gotten its staff confirmed by the Senate and before the midterms campaign begins.

If the eurozone collapses, its epitaph should be the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, in 2007: "We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it."32

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

A guiding coalition with good managers but poor leaders will not succeed. A managerial mindset will develop plans, not vision; it will vastly undercommunicate the need for and direction of change; and it will control rather than empower people.

Failure here is usually associated with underestimating the difficulties in producing change and thus the importance of a strong guiding coalition.

A useful rule of thumb: Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble.

Develop the Change Vision and Strategy. Clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality. Consider: What would be the equivalent of becoming nomads and being "free"? Is that better future attractive enough? Do we have a credible path to achieve that goal?

Communicate for Understanding and Buy-In. Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy. Go beyond "stopping resistance" to creating more and more people who want to help you.

If you cannot describe your vision to someone in five minutes and get their interest, you have more work to do in this phase of a transformation process.

A useful rule of thumb: Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble. Error