Strategy Quotes

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character.

If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new strategy.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Sometimes a whisper in a noisy room is the most effective strategy.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

Growth isn't a strategy, it's a result.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.

Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back.

That way, they'll want more.

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

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Don't hide your strategy under a bushel.

Communicate it throughout your company. It's better today to disclose too much that too little.

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

The question on long term strategy is not if it is successful, but if you are still alive.

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about.

It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.