Quotes About Strategy

the Romans were one of the first to also place leaders behind their men in an open order of battle.

a bold act may prove to be a blunder. Nonetheless, it is a laudable error, not to be regarded on the same footing as others. Happy is the army where ill-timed boldness occurs frequently; it is a luxuriant weed, but indicates richness in the soil.

Napoleon said, "The moment of greatest vulnerability is the instant immediately after victory.

I like the adventures because you know that when they say, "I've got a plan," and then they tell you, you know it's not going to work. And when they say, "I've got a plan," and they don't tell you, you know it is going to work, and it's all very exciting. I thought real life might be like that for a while, so I didn't tell anybody what I wanted to happen, but it didn't make any difference. I knew I was kiddin' meself.

Savings without a mission is garbage. Your money needs to work for you, not lie around you.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

If you are going to open a retail store you would want to consider Christmas. Most retailers make the majority of their entire year's income between

Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

If we aren't profitable by December 20, I will close the business." That would leave him about $800,000, plus his retirement money and home, and he would do something else to earn a living.

Your largest wealth-building asset is your income. When you tie up your income, you lose. When you invest your income, you become wealthy and can do anything you want.

Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.

If you invest $464 in a good mutual fund every month from age thirty to age seventy, you'll end up with more than $5 million.

Zig Ziglar says, "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time." I love how Zig cuts right to the heart of the matter. If you don't have a target, if you don't have a goal in mind, then you'll never get where you want to go. Most people take a "Ready-Fire-Aim" approach to budgeting. They get the money, spend the money, and then wonder why they don't have any money. It's crazy!

Business is really not that hard. You are, however, required to do the basics or you will not win.

out-of-bounds marker or the game is hard to play. One of the leading causes of small-business failure is success

A lot of beginners in business think of marketing merely as selling.

Wealth-building is a crockpot, not a microwave.

investments are like manure. Left in one pile, it starts to stink. But when you spread it around, it grows things. I bet your financial guy never laid it out like that!

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. —George S. Patton

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

desafío estratégico clave es transformar una empresa tan rápido o más rápido que los cambios del entorno. Esta capacidad de tomar las decisiones necesarias de forma rápida, creativa e inteligente se denomina «agilidad estratégica». Según

We believe that in times when risk and uncertainty is most prevalent, protecting a portfolio's capital base is far more important that speculation.

Yogi Berra, the fabled Yankee baseball player and manager, was said to have pointed out, "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." That is so true about brands; you need to know where they are to end up.