Strategy Quotes · Page 49

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

— Seth Godin

“Hey, Dorkangelo, change of plans. Take the next right.”

— Pamela Clare Naked Edge

I particularly like writing on planes. You've got nothing else to do but concentrate.

— Rick Stein

The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.

— Vince Lombardi

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

— Colin Powell

In the past, the main problem for me was sticking with the game plan.

— Andrei Arlovski

“A plan not implemented is as good as a plan not written”

— Topsy Gift

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

— Robert M. Gates

“More than anything else, this disconnect—between the way planning works and the way decision making happens—explains the frustration, if not outright antipathy,…

— Harvard Business School Press

When someone's portraying something they're not to get underneath my skin, I'm just going to funnel that into a great strategy, and…

— Tyron Woodley

... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement -…

— George Arthur Crump

Management isn't just about tactics and what happens on the training ground or in a game. Of course you need those skills.…

— Scott Parker

“The winning strategy does not just change as we move from stage to stage, it actually reverses the prior strategy.”

— Geoffrey A. Moore

“You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if…

— Anonymous

In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to…

— Rob Payne

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the…

— Mitt Romney

“Indeed, one of the most important functions of an explicit, communicated strategy is to guide employees in making choices that arise because…

— Michael E. Porter

“Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who…

— Martin Van Creveld

If we understand our own times, we will know that we should affirm the reality of God by challenging the domination of…

— Phillip E. Johnson

“Plan B” is nonsense. Successful people come up with plans A, B, C, D . . . all the way to Z.…

— Amber Hurdle

Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various…

— Max McKeown

The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this…

— Leonid Shamkovich

When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed,…

— Charles Baxter

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that…

— Dale Jamieson

“Strategic leadership is knowing when to push forward and when to pivot.”

— Wayne Chirisa

“The essence of strategy is making informed trade off's, not doing everything.”

— Wayne Chirisa

Plans turn promises into results and dreams into realities.

— Ron Kaufman

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

— Paulo Coelho

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

— George Barna

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

— Garry Kasparov

“Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.”

— Jonathan Tropper

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

— Seth Klarman

God always has a plan. He just works in very mysterious ways.

— Anonymous

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I don't fly by the seat of my pants. I set strategies, and then I pursue those in unrelenting fashion.

— Chris Meledandri

“A strategy is not just a plan, it’s a commitment to disciplined decision making.”

— Wayne Chirisa

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

— Patrick Lencioni

“The minute you have a back-up plan, you've admitted you are not going to succeed”

— Elizabeth Holmes

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

— Paul Keres

It's nice to have a plan to reach goals, instead of the unknown.

— Corey Seager