Strategy Quotes · Page 100

America's bipartisan strategy for years has been to deny jihadists with sanctuaries anywhere in the world from where they can plan, prepare,…

— Pete Hoekstra

The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied…

— Pierre Nanterme

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the…

— Calvin Coolidge

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react…

— Harmony Korine

You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get…

— Robbie Lawler

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The teams that use tanking as a strategy are doing damage. If you're in tanking mode, that means you've got young players…

— Jeanie Buss

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

— Nelson Mandela

“The product strategy describes how the long-term goal is attained; it includes the product’s value proposition, market, key features, and business goals.…

— Roman Pichler

Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you…

— Bell Hooks

Most of the experts agree that strategy will have to become more "adaptive", meaning that strategies will change faster based on information…

— Walter Kiechel

The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in…

— Gregory Heisler

“When you and your opponent are fighting and nothing is going right, nor is there progress, be of a mind to throw…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war,…

— Robert Scales

It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free…

— Thorstein Veblen

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine…

— Susan Rice

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and…

— Jane Fonda

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

— Eugene Odum

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

— James Fallows

“But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Adrian, we hashed this out! Everything's gone perfectly until now. Why would you even think about deviating from the plan?' 'Um, because…

— Richelle Mead

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

— Vladimir Potanin

Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the…

— Peter Menzel

China's strategy is to rob, replicate and replace. China robs American companies of their intellectual property. They replicate our technology.

— Tommy Tuberville

Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your…

— Margrethe Vestager

I love strategy games, but a lot are very techy, and they don't really give you any human side of what strategy…

— Peter Molyneux

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

— Jack Ma

“Prepare for Success. Feel the satisfaction and power of having your act together! Get organized beforehand to get better results. Prior Planning…

— Susan C. Young

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem…

— Muhammad Yunus

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

— Noam Chomsky

“Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real…

— Daniel Silva

“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think…

— Adam Gopnik

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators,…

— Diane Ravitch

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power.…

— Jay Carney

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

— Benjamin Cohen

If the last hundred years of market cycles teaches anything, it's that one can't be a great equity investor without also being…

— Joel Litman

There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this…

— Jay Leno

“There is a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership…

— Napoleon Hill

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation…

— Henry Mintzberg