Quotes about Strategy

Some commanders can move troops so as to get the maximum distance out of them without fatigue, while others can wear them out in a few days without accomplishing so much.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

It is rather pointless to go head to head with strong and entrenched competition. But numerous opportunities can be found in the marketplace for a company to maximize its unique qualities, differentiate its products and services, and go after a specific market segment where its competitors are weak and where you can develop superiority, where you can win battles.

The ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.

Whenever you face crunch time in your life or business, mentally call a time-out in the game and focus on getting all the information you can about the situation before you make a decision or overreact.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

People have labeled the Process as whatever, tanking. I don't see it like that.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.