Strategy Quotes

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

Help your pieces so they can help you

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Some are arguing that the Democrats should resist at every turn [to Donald's Trump administration], and some Democrats are saying that's the strategy that Democrats should now employ.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

Attack! Always Attack!

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

Strategy is a system of expedients.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.