The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael LeBoeuf
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
Jeff Bezos
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
Michael Porter
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.
Henry B. Eyring
Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’
Jef I. Richards
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
Max Euwe
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.
Ryan Holiday
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Charles de Gaulle
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
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Unknown
Stock market goes up or down, and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.
John Paulson
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
John P. Kotter
For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going – that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it’s often because no one focused on who they are – that is, their culture, which is critical to successfully bringing different groups of people together.
Punit Renjen
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
Rod Blagojevich
Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
Jack Canfield
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
I don’t have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.
Terence Tao
It’s not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It’s your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
Jack Ma
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
Michael Porter
My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.
Gautam Adani
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
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess.
Lennox Lewis
Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.
Ofra Strauss
To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.
Dinesh Paliwal
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
Steve Sabol
Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
Alicia Garza
The key for us is always a multiple-year strategy, and a multiple-year strategy means great products, great customer relationships, and doing solid engineering.
Lisa Su
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.
Henry Sy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy – a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.
Roxane Gay
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
Jamais Cascio
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
Carl Icahn
In marketing I’ve seen only one strategy that can’t miss – and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
John Romero
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
Jane Fonda
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
Valentino Rossi
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Susan Sontag
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
Frank Muir
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy’s place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.
John Berger
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Naomi Wolf
The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.
Edward Lampert
It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.
Morihei Ueshiba
If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‘Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,’ you’re working for you.
Jocko Willink
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
Eric Ries
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to ‘teach’ or ‘convert’ people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a ‘therapist’ in the pulpit.
Robert H. Schuller
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.
Sharan Burrow
Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.
John C. Bogle
The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.’s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.
Tim Cook
There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.
David Milne
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.
Pat Gillick
Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it’s got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.
Kiran Bedi
Our strategy is gaming for the masses.
Reggie Fils-Aime
Rarely is it correct to play a hyper-aggressive style of poker. But there are certain situations where a seemingly reckless approach will actually be the most profitable strategy to employ, like at the Main Event at the World Series of Poker.
Daniel Negreanu
I got an album concept called ‘Exit Strategy,’ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.
Nipsey Hussle
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
Michael Porter
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, ‘Think big but start small.’
Carmen Busquets
My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company’s heritage and our strategy.
Tim Sweeney
A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn’t suppress wages and kill jobs.
Jeb Bush
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.
Anne M. Mulcahy
There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don’t want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations.
Adi Godrej
In Spain, the game’s a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don’t play football.
Ronaldo
There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.
William Hague
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
Ted Engstrom
At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.
Charles Michel
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
David Blunkett
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There’s a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
Jack Nicklaus
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Mark Zuckerberg
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
Howard Schultz
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
Brian Acton
The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.
Frank Gaffney
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Bill Gates
If your employees are disengaged, and they don’t take care of your customers, it doesn’t matter how good your strategy is – your customers will still go somewhere else.
Ken Blanchard
Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. ‘Millions agree,’ ‘everyone knows,’ ‘many have done it.’
Pamela Meyer
The main thing is strategy. It’s not just come in and duke it out and fight.
Royce Gracie
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Jack Welch
For ‘Minecraft,’ it actually started with an isometric strategy game.
Markus Persson
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
Michael Porter
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it’s exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.
Curtis Jackson
What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.
Alan Mulally
I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
Bill Ackman
I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy… We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I’ve rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
Rahm Emanuel
In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, ‘Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,’ and that we should ‘run at criticism.’
John Delaney
Here’s the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.
Dan Bongino
After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.
Mark V. Hurd
I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float – and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
Ryan Holmes
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.
Sun Tzu
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn’t change. Visions are simply refined with time.
Andy Stanley
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.
Eliyahu Goldratt
Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game – it is the game.
Oscar Munoz
I really don’t have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, ‘If it gets too hard, get up and leave.’
Andy Grove
Strategy 101 is about choices: You can’t be all things to all people.
Michael Porter
In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Pakistan and Turkey as a southward shield against Soviet expansion toward the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. It was part of the containment strategy.
Wesley Clark
Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.
Franco Harris
Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.
Tahl Raz
I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation’s S&T strategy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.
Nipsey Hussle
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon’s southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
Deborah Kass
If the opponent offers keen play I don’t object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.
Anatoly Karpov
Announcers don’t do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.
Al Leiter
My experience with Epic is handing off more and more power to the point where I can just sit back and look at our strategy or technology. I provide guidance without being responsible for any particular part of the company.
Tim Sweeney
I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change.
Henry Paulson
Leadership changes, and evolving marketplace conditions can significantly impact business strategy.
Punit Renjen
Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It’s a sport that’s more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
Edgar Ramirez
If ‘Spectator Business’ works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from ‘Spectator Arts’ to ‘Spectator Style and Travel’ or ‘Spectator Connoisseur.’
Andrew Neil
In our perform agenda, segmentation is one of our key strategic priorities. Segmentation is about deploying the right go-to-market channel to the right customers with the right pricing and the right cost to serve. And as a result, the segmentation strategy ensures that we generate profitable growth.
Alain Dehaze
Being tough on China is one thing. Being completely erratic with no strategy and dragging businesses and farmers through the mud, using them as pawns in the game, is not the way to beat China.
Tim Ryan
If you look at the numbers from 2002 to 2016, we have consistently been market leaders. We have followed a well-articulated strategy, and our focus is to continue that strategy.
Chanda Kochhar
I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
Fedor Emelianenko
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
Michael Porter
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
Mark Zuckerberg
There’s a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it’s utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It’s like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.
Rob Manuel
A game is defined by the players’ strategy domains and payoff functions.
Leonid Hurwicz
My best generic tip, would be to be always thinking of an escape strategy. Always look around you and think ‘what if’? That and making sure you are correctly trained and experienced.
Steve Backshall
I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.
Leo Varadkar
A feasible North Korea strategy must consider how to reassure China that our objectives on the peninsula are not aggressive.
Will Hurd
Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.
Barack Obama
By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning – ideally decades – that we need. But that strategy of focused searching hasn’t stopped people from thinking about what we might do if an asteroid was on its way toward us.
Carrie Nugent
As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive. Understanding what AI can do and how it fits into your strategy is the beginning, not the end, of that process.
Andrew Ng
You need to pick your spots and bet big when you identify them. That’s basically my ‘Jeopardy!’ strategy in a nutshell.
James Holzhauer