Quotes on Strategy

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

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

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business sense.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.