Quotes About Strategy

The new plan looked like the answer.

If I have to give up Naveen, there are several things I want in return," Tiana said. Even when she had no way out, she still drove a hard bargain. In a way, he could admire that. It was too bad she was such a goody two-shoes. With her gumption, Tiana could help him take over this entire city.

The secret to staying competitive is not necessarily in growing your business in the traditional sense, but in using technology to innovate.

I've always told people how important it is to have a plan because, "That's the greatest piece of fiction you will ever write.

Otro corresponsal le preguntó [a Perón] qué pensaba hacer para regresar al poder en la Argentina. El Generla le sonrió y le respondió: "Nada. Todo lo harán mis enemigos".

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

To become rich you must be an owner. And you must try to own it all. You must strive with every fibre of your being, while recognising the idiocy of your behaviour, to own and retain control of as near to 100 per cent of any company as you can. If that is not possible, in a public company, for example, then you must be prepared to make yourself hated by those around you who are also trying to be rich. That is the dirty, rotten little secret of it all, my friend.

To become rich, every single percentage point of anything you own is crucial. It is worth fighting for, tooth and claw. It is worth suing for. It is worth shouting and banging on the table for. It is worth begging for and grovelling for. It is worth lying and cheating for. In extremis, it is even worth negotiating for. Never,

You do not need to be clever. You do not even need to be that adept. You need only a little cunning and massive determination to become rich. Providing you can pay much cleverer but risk-averse people properly, and promote them and lead them in such a way that they are all rowing in the same direction, they will sign on to your little ship.

If I could only get rich by bankrupting every supplier I ever dealt with, then I would do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn't feel good about doing it, but I'd do it. Getting rich isn't about vendor–customer 'partnerships'. And anyway, I have found that good suppliers respect a hard-nosed attitude providing it's logical and providing you pay on time.)

By focusing hard on obtaining that human capital you will vastly increase your chances of becoming rich. Stupid

Yet creating the right environment in which money can be made is essential. I repeat, you can't do it on your own. It

many managers attempt to reach their targets simply by cutting costs. This can be fatal. Any fool can cut costs anywhere at any time.

My advice on competition is always to ensure that you want to fight, and ought to fight on a larger competitor's ground.

But don't fight tigers, my friend. Not if you want to get rich. TWENTY-ONE

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. Thank

If you never have a single great idea in your life, but become skilled in executing the great ideas of others, you can succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Seek them out and make them work. They do not have to be your ideas. Execution is all in this regard.

It is a mature business, and few fortunes are made in mature industries, unless you are lucky enough to create a monopoly in one. I was luckier than I knew. So

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

Política não é apenas ideal, é caminho para se aproximar do ideal

Era anche quello che dal Kuwait in un'intervista dichiarò che tutto il processo di pace che trattava di «land for peace», terra in cambio di pace, non era che un cavallo di Troia. La questione era ideologica, basilare: o noi o loro, Israele doveva sparire, e la trattativa sulla terra era il primo passo in una strategia fatta di stadi.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.