Quotes About Strategy

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors

You can foul up the devil's whole strategy by taking charge of your thoughts and bringing them in line with the Word of God.

Buy straw hats in the winter, when nobody wants them, and sell them in the summer when everybody needs them.

it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

He accomplished this primarily by hooking up with his best friend, Henry Goldman, before the Goldman Sachs partnership. (They toyed with creating Goldman and Lehman but instead decided on splitting the profits 50/50.)

Never pay attention to any price-weighted index.

If a stock is high enough to be sold, it is high enough to be sold short," was another Sage maxim.

Stock watering, bribery, and stock corners were all methods to his madness, but for good reason. "My God, you don't suppose you can run a railroad in accordance with the statutes of New York, do you?

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

To achieve this his team had a sophisticated stress testing environment. When they wanted to improve the architecture they would first improve the stress tests until the system broke. Then they would improve the architecture just enough to run the tests. I suggested this strategy to an architect at another company. He complained of spending all of his time writing specifications and then explaining them to developers.

To Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing and his men, the first sign of Hooker's intention to abandon the Fredericksburg-Falmouth front came in the form of a telegram received at Second Corps headquarters on June 6, which directed that the soldiers of the corps have three days' rations in their haversacks, and that all wagons be loaded with stores and the trains put in readiness for any order to move. The order, the telegram stated, "may possibly be given to move early tomorrow."8

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....

For many of us, trying to outguess the market is a game that is much too much fun to give up. Even if you were convinced you would not do any better than average, I'm sure that most of you with speculative temperaments would still want to keep on playing the game of selecting individual stocks with at least some portion of the money you invest.

There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We

Finding the next Warren Buffett is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We recommend that you buy the haystack instead, in the form of a low-cost index fund.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions depending on what I think will help our election most.

I want to be the peace president.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.

The advance of freedom is the surest strategy to undermine the appeal of terror in the world. Where freedom takes hold, hatred gives way to hope. When freedom takes hold, men and women turn to the peaceful pursuit of a better life.

One of the important lessons of September the 11th, 2001 is that our country must deal with gathering threats before they materialize, before they come back to haunt us. And that's what we did in Iraq.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -- like a league game or something.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.