Strategic Management Quotes

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

Sun Tzu

Business, War, Fighting

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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

Commitment, Thinking, Issues

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Michael Porter

Essence, Deep Thought, Transcendentalism

Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Peter Drucker

Change, Yesterday, Logic

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

Motivational, Business, Military

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Life, Change

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 16, 2016

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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Alvin Toffler

Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Motivational, Change

Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Business

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois

Sports, Business, War

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership, Business, Character

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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Inspirational, Change, Success

New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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