Quotes About Strategy

Microsoft, for its part, will cheerfully run the search engine Bing at a loss, for the sake of hampering Google's freedom of action.

Alex direly wanted to try something stupid, but he wasn't about try anything stupid under these circumstances. He'd wait till he won their confidence, till they gave him a lot more initiative and leeway. Then he'd try something stupid.

Success actually requires more than virtuosity. It calls for perseverance, marketing, attention to detail, and more than a little luck.

In fact the best plan would have you wintering in the Bahamas, spend hurricane season in DR and PR, the next winter in the Virgins, Leewards and Windwards, the next summer in Venezuela and the third winter in Trinidad. Now you've got lots of time.

Planning, gentlemen, is 'What are you going to do next year that's different from what you did this year?'" he told them. "All I want is five items.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

It's the Idea that wins every time -- the Idea with brains and guts behind it.

Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.... People have been successful investors because they've stuck with successful companies. Sooner or later the market mirrors the business.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Books about business deal with functions and strategies—the mechanics of running a successful company," he said. "Fiction teaches you about human beings—how they think, how they behave, what's important to them. I'm more interested in people than I am in how businesses work.

Sometimes, insanity is not a tragedy. Sometimes, it's a strategy for survival. Sometimes ... it's a triumph.

The key of strategy ... is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.

If you can't win, change the game.

Never underestimate the enemy, boys. If you don't figure him to have as much sense as you've got you'll have trouble.

Be careful in the hunt, ye mates.

Of course the Russians under Zhukov were

If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

War is politics implemented by the use of force.

The Kwajalein invasion, the first of these

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Capitalism must be kept alive by non-capitalist methods.

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It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.