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
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence. — William H. Hastie
Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. — Ingvar Kamprad
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'. — Herb Kelleher
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal — Michael Porter
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. — Henry Mintzberg
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. — C. K. Prahalad
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. — Henry Mintzberg
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
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
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure. — Peter Drucker
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions — Henry Mintzberg
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking — Kenichi Ohmae
Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us. — Richard I. Winwood
Short Strategic Planning Quotes
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
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things. — Michael Porter
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. — Michael Porter
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. — Michael Porter
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. — Michael Porter
Don’t get wrapped around tactical competition. Think strategic all the time. — Jocko Willink
Strategic Planning Image Quotes
You must be willing to leave the life that you planned in order to find the one waiting for you.
Strategic Thinking Quotes
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
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
There's a path for everyone — as long as you have self-awareness and the willingness to think five moves ahead. — Patrick Bet-David
Rushing never saved the time that planning did.
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.
...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
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
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
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
Strategic Management Quotes
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker
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
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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
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
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
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
The number one thing I urge people to remember is it is all about being scientific about managing strategic uncertainty, while striking the important balance between being thorough and being flexible. — Scott D. Anthony
In the current situation, particular attention should be given to the quality of financial and economic management. The Government and the Central Bank should have a strategic action plan — Tatyana Golikova
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation. — Garry Kasparov
An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.
I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels. — Garry Kasparov
The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important. — Carly Fiorina
This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision. — Garry Kasparov
If something doesn't work change the plan, don't change your goal.
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
I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic. — Pitbull
The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition. — Ralph Abernathy
I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T. — William Morris
Strategic Leadership Quotes
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. — Sheryl Sandberg
Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you. — Denise Morrison
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. — Peter Senge
So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not. — Colin Powell
I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions. — Dalia Grybauskaite
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. — John Olver
We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time. — J. Oswald Sanders
This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources. — Martin Dempsey
Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces. — George Barna
Business 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
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
Never have a plan: it'll just get in your way.
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
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
You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. — George S. Patton
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
Picking the right customer to sell to is one of the highest leverage things you can do to make more money. — Alex Hormozi
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
Financial Planning Quotes
I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts. — Jim Rohn
Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer. — Gary Reilly
All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market — Nick Murray
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go. — Benjamin Graham
Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’ — Jim Rohn
If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go? — Jim Rohn
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan. — Jim Rohn
A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future. — Alexa Von Tobel
This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future. — Jim Cooper
Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult. — Venita VanCaspel
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
I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way. — Jason Statham
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
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
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. — Thomas A. Edison
The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. — Kenichi Ohmae
Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves. — Patrick Lencioni
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle — Sun Tzu
Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America. — Charlie Munger
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap. — Mary Anne Radmacher
To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake. — Lois Gibbs
Most of my career is spent in a meeting... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy. — Tyra Banks
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position. — Alexander Kotov
In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first. — Brian Tracy
Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who focus on a company's health coverage to stay up-to-speed on what's happening, and it's important for those in the C-suite to understand the changes to factor these new variables into their strategic planning calculus. — John E. McDonough
Give yourself permission to do something extraordinary and amazing on planet earth. Acknowledge that you have and can do whatever it takes. You would not be given true and inspiring dream without the potential to fulfill it. Listen to the wisdom of your heart and then use the sound reason of your mind to strategize and plan out the life you truly desire and deserve. — John Frederick Demartini
A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage. ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day. — Mao Zedong
World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today. — Eric Allison
Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them. — Robert J. Mckain
Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe. — Hillary Clinton
I'm independent so I have the freedom to drop music whenever I want to. I strategically plan everything. I'm a Capricorn, so I'm a planner. I work very hard, but I'm a planner at the same time. I've just been stock piling all this time waiting for the right opportunity to put out music. With me being locked up to a contract, it took years for everything to pass. — Marcus Ramone Cooper
We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to. — Rush Limbaugh
I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this. — Vladimir Putin
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat. — Abraham Lincoln
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. — Carol Roth
When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow. — Mengistu Haile Mariam
Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback. — Peter Drucker
Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality. — Allen Weinstein
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