Quotes About Strategy

If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level.

If I want it, what must happen for me to get it?

what consistently works for others will almost always work for us.

the secret to extraordinary results is to ask a very big and specific question that leads you to one very small and tightly focused answer.

The truth we discovered was that you have to know values in order to recognize opportunities and have to find opportunities before you can do deals.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

You can't really make a deal until you've found an opportunity, and you can't really know if it's an opportunity until you understand value.

Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.

You don't need to be a disciplined person to be successful. In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere.

Many of Admiral Stark's subordinates were so fixated on the idea that the navy battleships were protecting Pearl Harbor that they had trouble seeing the ships themselves as a Japanese target. The connection strategy is more than just connecting the dots. It involves changing the way we think.

A brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there.

The four building blocks that managers can use to improve strategy execution—decision rights, information, structure, and motivators—are inextricably linked.

Every one strengthens one or more of the building blocks executives can use to improve their strategy-execution capability: clarifying decision rights, improving information, establishing the right motivators, and restructuring the organization. The

Employees at three out of every five companies rated their organization weak at execution

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course: the space between your ears. —BOBBY JONES

Ninety percent of the game is half mental. —YOGI BERRA

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I have adopted what I call a "fat book" strategy. A movement that seeks to change the world cannot make its claims believable with only short books. The world is much too large and much too complex to be capable of being restructured in terms of large-print, thin paperback books - the only kind of books that most Christians read these days. The best that any movement can expect to achieve if it publishes only short books is to persuade readers that the world cannot be changed.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I..

thinking that relies on surprise, strategy, and adaptability. We learned to adjust our tactics, change course, ignore conventional wisdom, and find creative ways to solve intractable problems.