Strategy 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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• The greatest strategy is doomed if it's implemented badly.

  Bernhard Riemann

  Doomed, Ifs

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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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• Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Execution, Commodity

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• Tactics is the art of using troops in battle;
  strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, Winning

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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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• A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.

  Richard M. Kovacevich

  Keys, Long, Vision

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• Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night.

  Walter Schloss

  Sleep, Simple, Night

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• The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Rely Upon, Unlimited, Response

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Hell, Straightforward

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

  Michael Porter

  Goal, Sound, Tactics And Strategy

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• 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

  Competition, Being Different, Matter

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

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

  Mark Twain

  Metrics, Ifs

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• Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Motivation, Sacrifice

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• The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Opponents, Height

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• Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Opposites, Planning, Starting

  Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education

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• Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Strong, Procrastination, Sight

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Change, Leadership, Gnarly

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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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• The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Dangerous, Leap

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  Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

  Henry Mintzberg

  Decision, Patterns, Streams

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

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