Quotes About Strategy

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.

I'm a believer in the Afghan people, so I support an increase in forces there.

When times are good, there is budget available for increased research on secondary products or customers.

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.

Increasingly, we are embedding artificial intelligence into the core of our clients' businesses across every function and process.

The challenges facing our Armed Forces are increasingly complex.

Spinners are increasingly starting to bowl short, which means they are taking the straight boundaries away. When you play Test match cricket, you can't bowl short.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

I know I'm a better bowler and create more chances if I get a batsman indecisive in defence.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

Using his models, his computers look for moments when the short-term traders are moving opposite to the long-term investors-and then he bets that the imbalance will correct itself.

They found they could have made a tidy paper profit in the following six-month period, on average, 12.01 percent a year above what a simple, market-following index fund would have earned them. But beyond six months, the picture changed: After two years, their paper profits vanished as the stock prices "corrected" themselves.

What's the worst that can happen during planning? Maybe your whiteboard is accidentally erased. What's the worst that can happen during delivery? Your drill breaks through the ocean floor, flooding the tunnel.

Almost any nightmare you can imagine can happen—and has happened—during delivery. You want to limit your exposure to this. You do it by taking all the time necessary to create a detailed, tested plan. Planning is relatively cheap and safe; delivering is expensive and dangerous. Good planning boosts the odds of a quick, effective delivery, keeping the window on risk small and closing it as soon as possible.

When delivery fails, efforts to figure out why tend to focus exclusively on delivery. That's understandable, but it's a mistake, because the root cause of why delivery fails often lies outside delivery, in forecasting, years before delivery was even begun.

Projects are not goals in themselves. Projects are how goals are achieved. People don't build skyscrapers

A good plan, as I said, is one that maximizes experience or experimentation; a great plan is one that does both. And the best plan? That's one that maximizes experience and experimentation—and is drafted and delivered by a project leader and team with phronesis.

GET YOUR TEAM RIGHT This is the only heuristic cited by every project leader I've ever met.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.