Quotes on Strategic Management

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.