Quotes About Strategy

Against defenders, often the best tactic is to sheathe your weapon and refuse the game.

Causes that live by politics, die by politics.

Reagan liked to quip about détente: "Détente—isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey—until Thanksgiving Day?

Once that's done, it solves the original problem for all the tiny parts, which is usually a much easier task than solving the initial giant problem. The remaining challenge at that point is to put all the tiny answers back together again. That tends to be a much harder step, but at least it's not as difficult as the original problem was.

Calculus succeeds by breaking complicated problems down into simpler parts. That strategy, of course, is not unique to calculus. All good problem-solvers know that hard problems become easier when they're split into chunks. The truly radical and distinctive move of calculus is that it takes this divide-and-conquer strategy to its utmost extreme — all the way out to infinity.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final

All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final endgame.

A VISION is a precise, clearly defined goal with a detailed plan and timetable for achieving that goal.

UNA VISIÓN es un objetivo preciso y claramente definido, con un plan detallado y programado en el tiempo para alcanzar dicho objetivo.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage.

the idea to other handset manufacturers. Even though he was offering something for free, it was a tough sell. The mobile phone world had

The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement.

In early 2004, she gave a progress report at a Google Product Strategy meeting. Eric Schmidt asked her how many publishers AdSense had signed up. He figured the number would be in the thousands. But she reported a number well up in the hundreds of thousands. "They almost fell off their chairs," she said. But not Brin. "That's pretty good," he said. Later people would explain to Malone that Brin's "pretty good" is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize.

the quality of the CEO is the top factor in the success of the investment.

Or at least that's what the emperor wants us to think. It's an old Roman ploy, pretending that an enemy is responsible for the start of a war we greatly desire to wage.

Like Cleopatra," observed Philostratus, "they reached such a pinnacle by using their connection to men: Cleopatra through Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Domna through Severus, Maesa and her daughter through the two young cousins—one or both of them said to be the son of Caracalla. And now those boys rule jointly, since Antoninus adopted him and made him Caesar.

Una vez que identifique un segmento de mercado, tiene que preguntarse si es lo bastante amplio y accesible como para justificar su esfuerzo de marketing. Si la respuesta es no, entonces tiene lo que se llama un producto «fabricable», pero no un producto «comercializable». Solo dan dinero los productos comercializables.

A product can be differentiated from the competition by creative advertising and promotion, even if competing products are physically identical.

A distribution strategy can differentiate your product from the crowd.

Goal setting is paramount in developing a promotional campaign.

The law of successful operations is to avoid the enemy's strength and strike his weakness.

I was in Little League. I was on first base: I stole third. I ran straight across the diamond. Earlier in the week, I learned the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I argued with the ump that second base was out of my way.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?