Strategy Quotes

121 inspire records in this category

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

Michael Porter  

“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  

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ”

Sun Tzu  

“Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action. ”

Ellie Pidot  

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

Pete Johnson  

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

Charles de Gaulle  

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

Sun Tsu  

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

Sir Winston Churchill  

“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion. ”

Lee Bolman  

“A strategy is necessary because the future is unpredictable.”

Robert Waterman  

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Napoleon Bonaparte  

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. ”

Sun Tzu  

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”

Baltasar Gracian  

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

Sun Tzu  

“Study the past if you would define the future.”

Confucius  

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”

Patricia McCormick  

“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  

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ”

Michael Porter  

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. ”

General George S. Patton Jr.  

“Let’s execute along this strategy, but know that we’ll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it. ”

A.G. Lafley  

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

Michael LeBoeuf  

“You cannot be everything to everyone. If you decide to go north, you cannot go south at the same time.”

Jeroen De Flander  

“Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.”

Robert Filek  

“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.”

Michael Porter