Strategy Quotes

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

Help your pieces so they can help you

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Some are arguing that the Democrats should resist at every turn [to Donald's Trump administration], and some Democrats are saying that's the strategy that Democrats should now employ.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

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

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

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