Strategy Quotes · Page 67

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

— Dale Steyn

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

— Martha Plimpton

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

— Melody Beattie

Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'

— Steve Kornacki

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

— Tom Glavine

“Knowledge without wisdom is like a plane without a pilot!”

— Evinda Lepins

I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of.

— Elana Meyers

“The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.”

— Luo Guanzhong

“Many strategy errors emanate from mistaking the relevant industry, defining it too broadly or too narrowly p.37”

— Michael E. Porter

Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it…

— Seth Klarman

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

— Leon Trotsky

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.'s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where…

— Tim Cook

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

— Edward Tufte

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's…

— John W. Thompson

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel…

— Elizabeth Smart

“[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.”

— Lawrence Martin

Teams use trust as currency. If it is in short supply, then the team is poor. If trust abounds, the members of…

— Reggie McNeal

“Here’s a case where someone successfully followed their passion,” they say, “therefore ‘follow your passion’ must be good advice.” This is faulty…

— Cal Newport

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know…

— Michael McKean

If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at…

— James Altucher

As prime minister, Canadians expect me to do two things: To stand up for Canadian interests and project Canadian values; and to…

— Justin Trudeau

When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer.…

— Kevin Brady

“THE LIFE OF A WARRIOR IS A STRATEGY IN SELF-DISCIPLINE. EVERY ACTION, THOUGHT AND FEELING HAS TO BE CAREFULLY ASSESSED AS TO…

— Théun Mares

In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

— John Cassavetes

“The disparity between the vision and the reality establishes a gap. And what fills that gap is strategy.”

— Nancy Ortberg

“I'm thinking we need a plan...I'm thinking it should involve running.”

— Melinda Metz

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

— Robert Shapiro

I don't plan anything - I just let myself go with the flow.

— J Balvin

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

— Patricia McCormick

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

— David Sarnoff

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

— David Quammen

My strategy is to ask for those fights, ask for fights that nobody wants.

— Renato Moicano

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

— Jeff Henderson

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

— Orrin Woodward

“A plan is a thing that goes unsaid, but puts the hope in your voice nonetheless.”

— David Levithan

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

— Seth Godin

Sometimes people have a Plan A and a Plan B. But, as far as I'm concerned, I have just had a Plan…

— Demba Ba

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.

— John Paulson

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

— Al Ries