Quotes on Strategy

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

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

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.

You can't buy what is popular and do well.

All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him. When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him. Anger his general and confuse him. Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.