Best 875 quotes in «strategy quotes» category

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.

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

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

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.

The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.

The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.

Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I dont know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.

Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.

User experience is important to strategy.

To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy forward, we are doing it to deliver public remit. We're thinking less and less about C4 and more about the brand family.

We're trying our best to develop sort of strategies. We have already turned into law a labor reform law that will allow for more opportunities to ensue. We have also established a permits law that will facilitate permits in Puerto Rico. We are about to roll out a comprehensive tax reform that will enhance the base and will reduce the rates in Puerto Rico.

Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

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

When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.