Quotes About Strategy

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

I've always said, in India and England especially, but all around the world, it's hard to start your innings against good attacks.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

It's difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.

I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?

I fully agree with innovation and letting the best product win.

Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market.

Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

The second you get set in your ways is the second a newer, fresher, more innovative company is going to come in and take your market share.

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

I thank goodness every day that I played in the no-huddle, and it was Sam Wyche in Cincinnati who's really one of the innovators of the no-huddle.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

As far as I can tell, the baseball teams are run pretty darn well. I'm sure there's some better and worse, but I don't ever see a baseball team anymore and go, 'They're absolutely insane.'

I've been able to not only be a fighter, but a thinking fighter, where I can use my insight into the business and politics of the sport to make my decisions.