Quotes About Strategy

but to keep your head low enough to avoid the political battles that make you inherently vulnerable. I have absolutely no interest in becoming one of the vps who just give each other PowerPoints all day long.

we typically segment the customer base, so we know what set of problems each faces.

Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

Your sales pitch should present the goal and build to the interesting complication. They'll buy that.

Resistane violence may help unite the putschists' basic supporters and military forces against the ?anti coup? defenders

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

Irene had no objection to stealing a good strategy, any more than to stealing a good book.

It goes a bit like this," Irene said, as they walked towards the stairs. "The first step is, I'll kill myself before I let him do that to me again. The second step is to say, Wait, it'd be much more practical to kill him rather than kill myself. And there you have it. A sensible plan based on logical choices.

When the opponent completely controls the chessboard and things can't get worse for you, sometimes the answer is to make it worse for everyone . . .

Information was the best weapon she could have.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved," Irene retorted. "If I were going on a heroic quest, I'd probably start off by making a list of things I'd need on the journey. Including some books to read during the dull bits.

I prefer a more stable game." He tapped the chess-board meaningfully. "Games of strategy which rely on agreed rules and which avoid all semblance of luck are far more to my taste than cards or dice. I like to know where all the pieces are. I like to know what's possible in a game. I don't appreciate being surprised. Would you agree, Miss Winters?

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and all that sort of thing.

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Irene hated trusting to luck. It was no substitute for good planning and careful preparation.

Why is it so important to attack your competitors during a tornado instead of serve your customers? Why, specifically, was Larry Ellison once quoted as saying, citing Genghis Khan, "It is not enough that we win—all others must lose"?

when crossing the chasm, we are looking to attract customer-oriented distribution with one of our primary lures being distribution-oriented pricing. Customer-Oriented

It turns out, to disrupt someone else's business, you have to add a net new line of business to your own portfolio. This

Adding a new line of business to an existing portfolio creates a crisis of prioritization. Such

The competition takes place at the level of corporate agenda, not at the level of competing products. That