Quotes About Strategy

We need to be in front of consumer trends and translate those trends into insights and foresights.

To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing.

I have been a close observer of campaign trends.

Back when I was playing I enjoyed studying films, looking for new trends in the game and examining the new players who came along.

While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.

My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

For the triangle to really work, everybody needs to be on the same page and know how to play it.

I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but what he did is succeed and have a great career. I'm looking forward to learning from him. I've never played in the system, so I want to get there early.

The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.

The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.

I was in love with the triangle because it was so different to what everybody was doing in the NBA. Everybody else was dribbling down, throwing it into the low post, and then their guy would go to work. To me, it was boring.

Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.

It's tough for a jump shooter, especially in a triangle offense.

I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That's the game you learn in high school and younger - pass, cut - basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.

I loved playing in the triangle. That was a fun experience for me.

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.