Quotes for Strategy

Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.

Chris Dixon

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

Ken Salazar

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

Juan Williams

When you go to buy, don’t show your silver

Chinese Proverb

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

Jimmy Spithill

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Anita Brookner

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Michael Porter

If you don’t have a competitive advantage

don’t compete.”

The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.

Karren Brady

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

Kim Jong-un

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Jack Welch

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

Rudy Giuliani

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

Baba Kalyani

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

Robert Dallek

A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business - which by the way is a completely rational strategy.

Andy Jassy

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

Ellen Ullman