Quotes About Strategy

Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.

There are coaches who put more or less players in front of the ball; when you put lots of players ahead of the ball, the risk is magnified. There are coaches that won't contemplate that. I respect that.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

One doesn't win by chance. One doesn't lead a business to make a €1 billion or €500 million if he is a moron.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Get there first with the most.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

The most difficult thing is football is to give the ball to a player that has the same colour shirt.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

I think, when I see entrepreneurs, they tend to talk about the market and the industry - which is obviously very important, but the most important thing is you're product. What are you selling? And does it really have product-market fit?

We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.

I have this game that I play on my computer, 'Football Manager,' where I'm the manager of a team and that definitely gets me motivated.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.

Guy Lewis was all about efficiency. He was a great motivator. He got real talent and taught his players how he wanted them to play: hard and aggressive!

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

Julius Caesar's victories in Gaul were in significant part a result of the disunity of the Celts there, and of his ability to divide and conquer, both politically and militarily.269

I am more afraid of our own blunders than of the enemy's devices.

it is not so much your hostility that injures us; it is rather the case that, if we were on friendly terms with you, our subjects would regard that as a sign of weakness in us, whereas your hatred is evidence of our power.

when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.