Quotes About Strategy

In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.

My characteristics are to control the game, stay in the middle and organise the team, but I can adapt as well.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

Let's say I don't need to chase the ball as much as before. You learn to find the shortcuts.

If you chase a girl, the girl won't like you. Do your job simply, the girl will chase you.

You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.

As a middle-order batsman, when you're chasing, trying to be the best finisher you can be, you're bound to make one or two mistakes.

I'm not really chasing rematches.

Elections don't come cheap.

I don't bowl to escape with cheap economy.

If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

When I was playing for Chelsea, it was always tough to beat Albion.

When you play against a team such as Arsenal, Manchester United or Chelsea, you never know what will happen. But the key to the season is to win the games that you expect to win.

As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Chess is life.