Quotes About Strategy

You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.

What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.

The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.

I recruit defensive players first. That's where most games are won. Then you've got to get the offensive linemen.

A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

I think proximity in recruiting matters the most.

I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.

Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism: countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Without the red line, I think it's going to be a lot more exciting game, and I think you're going to get more scoring chances.

Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either 'blue-hot' or 'red-hot' depending on the level of intensity felt in either camp to such shifting ground.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

The way to reduce the debt is by economic growth.

Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some people would never invest in Europe - I think that's a mistake.

Our position is that we believe that Canada has to have a comprehensive plan to significantly reduce global emissions.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.