Quotes about Strategy

our main real estate effort should be directed at getting out in front of expansion and letting the population build out to us. Just like in the beginning, we start around these small towns, people drive past our stores, get to know us, and become customers.

I was impressed with the giant Carrefours stores in Brazil, which got me started on a campaign to bring home a concept called Hypermart—giant stores with groceries and general merchandise under one roof.

He should creep on by clandestine acts, and not contend in open battle according to the practice of those who excel in courage; he should secretly try many schemes, and thus stealthily extend his empire.

Antiochus shall act prosperously according to his mental perception, and shall be so assisted by' his craftiness, as to obtain whatever he shall grasp at.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.