A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. — Michael Porter
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. — Michael Porter
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. — Peter Drucker
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions — Henry Mintzberg
Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it. — Robert Greene
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do. — Michael Porter
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value. — Michael Porter
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. — Peter Drucker
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. — Henry Mintzberg
Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to a whole new place. — Jensen Huang
Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple. — Jack Welch
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things. — Michael Porter
Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. — Peter Drucker
Short Business Strategy Quotes
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything. — Michael Porter
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal — Michael Porter
A great product without great growth strategy will likely fail. — Cliff Lerner
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. — C. K. Prahalad
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure. — Peter Drucker
If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. — Alvin Toffler
A winning marketing strategy requires a balance of practicality and storytelling. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow. — Steve Jobs
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. — Michael Porter
Business today consists in persuading crowds. — Gerald Stanley Lee
Business Strategy Image Quotes
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. — Michael Leboeuf
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new strategy.
What Is Strategy Quotes
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have? — Steven Furtick
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. — Michael Porter
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Picking the direction is far more important than what force you apply. — Naval Ravikant
Often the easiest strategy to do more of what matters is to do less of what doesn’t. — Greg Brockman
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. — Savielly Tartakower
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
The biggest productivity strategy in the modern world is just getting ruthlessly clear about what it is that you want to do and then culling everything that doesn’t contribute to it. — Chris Williamson
The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources. — Colin Powell
What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly. — Eric Ries
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is. — Scott D. Cook
Marketing Strategy Quotes
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master. — Philip Kotler
There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market. — Philip Kotler
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail. — Gad Saad
To beat the market, focus on investments well within your knowledge and ability to evaluate, your 'circle of competence'. — Edward O. Thorp
You have to learn to profit from market fluctuations rather than suffer from them. — Francois Rochon
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
While it may be difficult to get on the front cover of a major magazine, you can create marketing strategies and opportunities by being featured in a popular niche blog. — Lewis Howes
I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade. — Diego Della Valle
If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel
It goes without saying, marketing teams should take a step back, rethink their marketing strategies, and become as regular as clockwork across social media platforms. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Strategic Management Quotes
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. — Henry Mintzberg
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. — Michael Porter
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. — Peter Drucker
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. — Frank Shorter
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model — Harold Kerzner
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly. — Harriet Rubin
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell. — Richard Moran
The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it. — David C. McClelland
Strategy Quotes
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu
Sometimes a whisper in a noisy room is the most effective strategy.
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. — Mooji
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. — Rudy Giuliani
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. — Sun Tzu
The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. — Sun Tzu
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. — Henry Mintzberg
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. — Robert Greene
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. — John P. Kotter
Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. — Steve Jobs
Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. — John Harvey-Jones
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan. — Les Brown
You have to look at your business ideas and your plans, and find a way to remove your need for money to attempt the plan. — Andrew Tate
Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region. — Roger Wicker
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy — Charles R. Swindoll
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. — William Arthur Ward
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. — Thomas A. Edison
Business Growth Quotes
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. — Andy Rooney
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both — Paul Polman
From working in my mum's tiny chemist shop to my experience building large businesses, I have seen how we should support free enterprise and innovation to ensure Britain has a stronger future. — Rishi Sunak
Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode. — Jeff Bezos
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
Strategic Planning Quotes
Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. — Ingvar Kamprad
If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that just because what is being said is crazy to the point of absurdity does not mean that the strategic plan is absurd. — Bret Weinstein
Further diversifying our economy is a key strategic focus of our future plans. It is therefore necessary to accelerate economic development efforts to continue building a leading global economy, to enhance our competitiveness and achieve the highest global rankings. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
There's a path for everyone — as long as you have self-awareness and the willingness to think five moves ahead. — Patrick Bet-David
They wanted war as part of their strategic grand plan to destroy any country such as Russia that resists American imperial expansion. They only pretend to think it was unprovoked. They are lying to us, manufacturing consent for war. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence. — William H. Hastie
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. — Azim Premji
To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness. — Richard Koch
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again. — T. Harv Eker
Strategic Thinking Quotes
Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people? — Mitchell Reiss
Don’t get wrapped around tactical competition. Think strategic all the time. — Jocko Willink
...there is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that. — Ray Anderson
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking — Kenichi Ohmae
Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression. — Mike Pence
To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally. — Robert Greene
If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day. — Les Brown
I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one. — Helmut Schmidt
I think would send a very strong message to Putin and to Russia that NATO countries and the United States are going to respond by growing stronger economically and strategically. — Mike Pence
I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people. — Nancy Pelosi
Business Management Quotes
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations. — Chris Voss
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
What’s kept me intrigued is that it is one of the few jobs where everyday you can study something new. You are constantly learning about new businesses, new situations, new management teams, new issues. So it’s infinitely challenging. — Bill Ackman
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years. — Donna Mills
My biggest regret in business is not starting sooner. It took 4 years to build my first website, but the day I actually started to build my website it only took me 10 hours. — Alex Hormozi
The untold secret of McDonald’s is that when you sell a restaurant to a franchisee, sales typically go up a lot because the franchisees do a much better job managing the store. — Bill Ackman
Business Marketing Quotes
Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business. — Lewis Howes
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. — Anita Brookner
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. — Larry Fink
A similar wisdom can be applied to market quotations. Once we understand that they can often be mirages, we can transcend them and come to see stocks simply as shares of businesses…which in the end is the one and only reality. — Francois Rochon
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle
Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion. — Andrew Tan
As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for opportunities to get face time with movers and shakers in your network. — Lewis Howes
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. — Janet Napolitano
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg
In plain words, pricing this way means you are providing a service at just above what it costs for you to stay above water. We are not trying to stay barely above water. We are trying to make egregious amounts of money that will have your relatives asking if what you are doing is legal. Again, we are not trying to get the most customers. We are trying to make the most money. — Alex Hormozi
If one day we must sell something, first we want to turn it around and make it profitable. — Bernard Arnault
Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a vehicle for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for the development of high-impact drugs in dementia and the neuroscience field more generally. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. — George S. Patton
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
While boards are better today than they were a decade ago, they continue to be far from optimal. Many directors depend on the income they receive from serving on boards, and as a result are reluctant to challenge management on strategy, risk-taking, or compensation. Often, they are business, social, and or charitable connections among the directors that reduce their independence or willingness to speak-up. Many CEOs prefer directors with no experience in a company’s principal lines of business because it makes it more difficult for them to challenge the CEO. — Bill Ackman
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. — Lawrence Bossidy
I've said all along that we're building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. —
Create flow. Monetize flow. Then add friction. — Alex Hormozi
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. — Robert S. Kaplan
As you would expect, I come from a business background, and the idea that a finance director would be somewhat not working closely with the CEO of a company is very strange to anyone in the business world. — Rishi Sunak
Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success. — Yogi Berra
Two heads are definitely better than one and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge. — Richard Branson
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Miyamoto Musashi
We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence. — Craig Newmark
It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce. — Jared Kushner
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. — Rod Blagojevich
As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers? — Lewis Howes
It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships. — Lewis Howes
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. — Reid Hoffman
Competitors don’t put you out of business, but you obsessing over competitors does. — Alex Hormozi
For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable. — Vivek Ramaswamy
My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment. — Paul Polman
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy. — Miyamoto Musashi
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. — Kenichi Ohmae
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. — Jack Welch
As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. — Ursula Burns
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people. — Brother Ali
The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. — Eugene H. Peterson
Think like a publisher, not a marketer. — David Meerman Scott
Without competitors there would be no need for strategy. — Kenichi Ohmae
Mine's a pretty simple strategy: there's not a lot of talent here, but there's a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy. — Ryan Seacrest
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool. — James Daly
Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets. — Jack Welch
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