What do you want to achieve
or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to
this you can call strategy. - William E Rothschild
defeat the enemies strategy
- Sun Tzu
You have to be fast on your
feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. - Charles de Gaulle
There is always a better
strategy than the one you have; you just haven't thought of it yet - Sir
Brian Pitman
Do not repeat the tactics
which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances - Sun Tzu
Success is neither magical
or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals.- Jim Rohn
[strategy is] a mental tapestry
of changing intentions for harmonizing and focusing our efforts as a basis for realizing some aim or purpose in an unfolding
and often unforeseen world of many bewildering events and many contending interests. [Its aim was] to improve our ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances, so that we (as individuals or
as groups or as a culture or as a nation-state) can survive on our own terms. - John R. Boyd
There is nothing so useless
as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker
Progress comes from the
intelligent use of experience - Elbert Hubbard
Continuous effort -- not
strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential. - Sir
Winston Churchill
Energy and persistence conquer
all things - Benjamin Franklin
We are what we repeatedly
do - Aristotle
The one sure way to success
is to know everything you can about what you do. - Donald Trump
When we know our own strength,
we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success. - John
Locke
It is not the strongest
of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
Let me tell you the secret
that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis
Pasteur
Look for what's missing. Many
advisors can tell a president how to improve what is proposed or what's going amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
- Rumsfeld's Rule
The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly
well. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am
less chary of the latter than the former; space we can recover, time never. - Napoleon
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -
Leonardo Da Vinci
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.
- Peter Drucker
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it
from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need
for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable
edge over its competitors. - Kenichi Ohmae in "The Mind of the Strategist"
A strategy is the pattern or plan that integrates an organization's
major goals, policies, and action sequences into a cohesive whole. A well-formulated strategy helps to marshal and allocate
an organization's resources into a unique and viable posture based upon its relative internal competencies and shortcomings,
anticipated changes in the environment, and contingent moves by intelligent opponents. - James Brian Quinn, Strategies for
Change: Logical Incrementalism
You have to understand what it is that you are better
at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it. - Andrew Grove, CEO, Intel
War is ninety percent information. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
What gets measured gets done; what gets rewarded gets done
repeatedly. - Barcy C. Fox
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting
subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a
sharp mind in touch with the situation. - Henry Mintzberg
The game of business used to be like football: size mattered.
Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually,
and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth... - Adrian Slywotzky, author of The Profit
Zone
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything
that counts can be counted.- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget
it. - Peter Drucker
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem,
I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious. - Albert Einstein
You know only insofar as you can measure. - Lord Kelvin
When playing poker, the cards you get are dumb luck. Whether
you win or lose depends on whether you can read your opponent - Charlie, Suicide Kings
The computer is a moron. - Peter F. Drucker
Simply stated, uncertainty and related disorder can be diminished by the
direct artifice of creating a higher and broader more general concept to represent reality. - John R. Boyd
