Quotes About Strategy

Gone are the days of just containing through the middle, gone are the days of just soaking up pressure. You've got to be able to take wickets.

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

Life is a soccer field, don't you think?

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I love to have the ball. That's why I play soccer, and we have a great coach who has this kind of view, he sees everything, and I just want to help as much as I can, on the pitch and off the pitch.

Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

But for me as a player, I pride myself on understanding the game and having a really good soccer IQ.

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.

One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.

There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place.

Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

At first, social media was just about networking. But now that I have to network, I make sure that every platform makes money for me. You can do something on Facebook.

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.