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Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.