Quotes About Strategy

If you're an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you're gonna go where all the money is.

Well, that's the question we have to answer as coaches. Is our franchise quarterback here? Is he on the roster? Is he being developed, or is he somewhere else?

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

It's not just about knockouts, son. This is mixed martial arts. It's about finishing people. It's about putting in that time, putting in all five rounds.

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

China and also U.S.A. are investing a huge amount of money to bring in big players and we will see a different map of football sooner rather than later.

If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that provide an excess return above investment are discounted.

Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

Part of how we decide how we allocate our media is we have fairly sophisticated ways of measuring our return on marketing spend, which helps us best analyze the most effective way and medium in which to spend our marketing dollars.

I've seen a couple of players previously saying, 'We don't need a top signing or signings.' But I am sorry, I am not singing off the same hymn-sheet on that one.

I'm sorry I'm perceived as an element that's dangerous. I've never tried to hurt anybody. I'm interested in scoring points; pinning and winning.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.