Strategy
Definition: Strategies: plural noun. A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.
Number of Quotes: 43
One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand
out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
Scott Adams
This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor where people can sustain a competitive advantage for very long.
Richard D'Aveni
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.
Karan Bilimoria
Business is all about putting out money today to get a whole lot back later.
Warren Buffett
The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is
run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong.
Warren Buffett
IBM is like the Stepford Wives. It takes the best people from the best universities and
colleges and then snips out some part of the brain so that they become mindless clones.
Bill Campbell
Never speculate ... if you have savings, invest them in solid securities, lands, or property. The man who gambles upon the
exchanges is in the condition of the man who gambles at the gaming table. He rarely, if ever, makes a permanent success.
Andrew Carnegie
There are two ways to compete - in stable conditions, you plan and you compete on scale. In unstable times, you live by your wits.
Dick Cavanagh
For many businesses, the Internet is still a technology in search of a strategy.
Mary J. Cronin
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to
understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.
Michael Dell
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming
Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions.
Peter Drucker
First get in, then get rich, then get respectable.
Bernie Ecclestone
To win against opponents, companies need strategies for three related tasks: outwitting, outmaneuvering, and outperforming competitors.
Liam Fahey
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
Bertie Forbes
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
There is a misconception that small is always more beautiful than big.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Columbus didn't have a business plan when he discovered America.
Andrew Grove
The essence of a company like Intel is execution and strategy. Intel, looked at in another way, is a three-legged stool.
One leg is technology - design and silicon technology - another leg is manufacturing, and the third leg is marketing. Whenever
Intel did well it was because the three legs were equal. Whenever one of those legs was shorter than the others, we wobbled.
Andrew Grove
Without an appropriate vision, a transformation effort can easily dissolve into a list of
confusing, incompatible and time-consuming projects that go in the wrong direction or nowhere at all.
Bob Guccione
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Quality is not a program that can be simply imposed on an operation; instead it is
a way of operating that permeates a business and the thinking of its employees.
Theodore B. Kinni
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
In the Harbor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is better to be impetuous than circumspect. Experience shows that (fortune) is more often subdued by men who do this than by those who act coldly.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The time has now definitely come when every intelligent individual must learn
to think globally, beyond the horizon of a narrow nationalist point of view.
Robert Maxwell
Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
Mark McCormack
Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four, and Five as
pure fantasy ... Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
Mark McCormack
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which
case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
Henry Mintzberg
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.
Rupert Murdoch
We're not going global because we want to or because of any megalomania, but because it's really necessary.
Rupert Murdoch
Organizations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
Narayana Murthy
Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
Frank Nugent
In business as on the battlefield, the object of strategy is to bring about the condition most favorable to one's own side.
Kenichi Ohmae
Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
Faith Popcorn
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of values.
Michael Porter
The kind of brain-dead, gum chewing assistant you find in so many shops drives me
wild. I want everyone who works for me to feel the same excitement that I feel.
Anita Roddick
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition,
curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient - euphoria.
Anita Roddick
Morality aside, there are other factors deterring strategic defaults,
whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic
and emotional costs of giving up one's home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower's credit rating.
Richard H. Thaler
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be
profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend
If you're going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big.
Donald Trump
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the
fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu
We need a can-do, vibrant, innovation-driven culture. Not wearing a tie is just a snippet of that.
Paul Walsh
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