Quotes about Strategy

In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.

There are times at which it is right not to listen to customers, right to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins, and right to aggressively pursue small, rather than substantial, markets.

Established firms attempt to push the technology into their established markets, while the successful entrants find a new market that values the technology.

To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one's opponent.

To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one's opponent.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.