Strategy Quotes - Page 2

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

Attack! Always Attack!

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.

Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

Strategy is a system of expedients.