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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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• A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

  Bill Gates

  Lame, Information, Matter

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System". Book by Bill Gates, www.entrepreneur.com. 1999.

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• Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Space

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• There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Change, Two, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

  Michael Porter

  Choices, Different, Trade

  "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

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• The future influences the present just as much as the past.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Future, Past

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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

  Michael Porter

  Essence, Trying, Limits

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

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Self Improvement, Kind

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• The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

  Michael Porter

  Teacher, Ceo, Knows

  "Strategy bites back: It is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined". Book by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce W. Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel (p. 45), 2005.

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• Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Belief, Brilliant

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.9, Penguin

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• The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, War, Blow

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• Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

  Michael Porter

  Continuity

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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

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• Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

  Seth Godin

  Positivity, Long, Standing Out

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• If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Plain Language, People, Simplicity

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• Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

  Elon Musk

  Sports, Team, Winning

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

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Illustrated Art of War”, p.144, Courier Corporation

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• A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

  Michael Porter

  Unique, Territory, Company

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• I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

  Adam Khoo

  Believe, People, Impossible

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  Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

  Peter Drucker

  Culture, Breakfast, Company Culture

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• Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

  Duff McDonald

  Giving, Should, Chiefs

  Duff McDonald (2014). “The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy”, p.113, Oneworld Publications

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• The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

  Michael Porter

  Trying, Company, Willing To Try

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• Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

  Max Euwe

  Thinking, Tactics, Playing Chess

  "Sales - What A Concept!: A Guidebook for Sales Process Performance Improvement" by Henry C. (Sandy) Waters III, p. 11, 2011.

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