Quotes About Strategy

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

Teams like the Patriots stress situational football moreso than a lot of other teams in the NFL.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

In certain situations, you have to be able to be more conscious of ball security than you do in the open field.

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

I would always treat my attacking game as the more natural part. With defence, you have to get yourself in positions to understand the game and understand situations and that might not be as natural a thing.

I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.

There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

You don't have to always win by scoring five or six.

First six overs are important because if you put runs on board, it will take the pressure off the other batsmen.

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

When it comes down to competition, it's not always about the best skater, it's about who skates the best in that competition.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.