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You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Strategy is sacrifice. Try and do everything then you have no plan, no hope and especially no future. -- Ron Wiens
If someone says you're not strategic, try to figure out what that means and then tell him or her to go to hell. -- Richard Moran
If you're failing to strategize, you're probably using your time in the wrong ways. -- Jay Abraham
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. -- Henry Mintzberg
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. -- George C. Marshall
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
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation. -- Henry Mintzberg
I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping. -- Rick Steves
A good strategy should dictate the right actions. Any action mustn't be impulsive, but analyzed along with all its possible outcomes. A solid plan always includes many backups and alternatives. -- Diane Ackerman
We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding. -- Gary Hamel
A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY. -- Pearl Zhu
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy. -- Max Mckeown
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. -- Robert Greene
The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side. -- Sun Tzu
I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done. -- Madeleine Albright
There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do. -- Tony Dungy
Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists. -- Michael Scott
To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness. -- Richard Koch
In planning an attack, persons have various roles. -- Robert Mueller
And strategy is just a fancy word for a special kind of common sense, the ability to see options, to make them where there were none. It's not about knowing the rules. It's about knowing how to break them. -- V.e Schwab
The fanatic emphasis on 'Plan B' that professionals talk about is not a coward's fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces. -- Andy Paula
Every minute now should be the Father of some Strategem. -- William Shakespeare
Strategy is not about doing things ... it's about doing things deliberately. -- Buffi Neal
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow. -- Max Mckeown
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. -- Jack Welch
A strategy is multi-dimensional planning, multi-team collaboration, and multitasking action. -- Pearl Zhu
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. -- Charles De Gaulle
Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day. -- Colin Powell
Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth. -- Nick Hanauer
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
The disparity between the vision and the reality establishes a gap. And what fills that gap is strategy. -- Nancy Ortberg
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. -- Mao Zedong
Defeat the enemies strategy. -- Sun Tzu
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. - Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM) -- Katherine Neville
If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you. -- Michael Hyatt
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. -- Ambrose Bierce
Strategic Thinking starts with the end in mind. -- Pearl Zhu
Strategy is the bridge that connects political goals with military force (and vice versa). -- Peter D. Haynes
I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions. -- Karlie Kloss
Planning is a skill and an art which takes a lifetime to master -- Paddick Van Zyl
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow. -- Sun Tzu
But there is one strategy in particular that I would like to share with you. -- Robin S. Sharma
You have to be strategic in your action -- Sunday Adelaja
The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really. -- James Mcavoy
I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career ... -- Salma Hayek
Tactics are manipulative. -- Shiv Khera
Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture. -- Pearl Zhu
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second. -- Jonathan Haidt
You need a new strategy for every new situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Strategy, in other words, is about first analyzing and then experimenting, trying, learning, and experimenting some more. -- Anonymous
Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil. -- Steven Furtick
A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination. -- Pearl Zhu
prestidigitator, -- Jay Samit
Strategy is worthless unless you can act on it. -- Nathan Shedroff
I'm a pragmatist. -- Richard Sherman
Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision -- Pearl Zhu
You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. -- Leon Trotsky
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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan. -- Ludwig Von Mises
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. -- Max Mckeown
[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration. -- Lawrence Martin
A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win. -- M.f. Moonzajer
I'm an orator, a raconteur. -- Ron Shock
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble ... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation. -- Garry Kasparov
Your strategy is the road map for bringing your goals to fruition ... Ask yourself, 'What are the steps I need to take to achieve this goal?' Be careful not to overwhelm yourself by taking on too much at once. -- Lauren Mackler
Tactics flow from a superior position -- Bobby Fischer
Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance! -- Nancy Tellem
You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success. -- Roger Martin
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. -- Garry Kasparov
A strategy is nothing more than a commitment to a set of coherent, mutually reinforcing policies or behaviors aimed at achieving a specific competitive goal. -- Anonymous
You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. -- J.r. Ward
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy. -- Henry Sy
General consultant to mankind. -- George Bernard Shaw
Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right. -- Kin Hubbard
The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources. -- Walter Russell
Anyone can act strategically, it doesn't take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail. -- Lance Conrad
The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow? -- Peter Drucker
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. -- Jack Welch
My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack. -- Don Frye
Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one. -- Tyga
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. -- Piers Anthony
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. -- C. K. Prahalad
What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies. -- Orison Swett Marden
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. -- Peter F. Drucker
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means. -- Max Mckeown
The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers! -- Leonid Shamkovich
Especially when ultimate decisions of peace and war are involved, a strategist must be aware that bluffs may be called and must take into account the impact on his future credibility of an empty threat. -- Henry Kissinger
A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent. -- Richard Dawkins
Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go. -- Simon Sinek
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast ... .Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done. -- Larry Mcvoy
He that staies does the businesse. -- George Herbert
The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works. -- Constantinos C. Markides
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. -- Michael Porter
We define strategy as a set of coordinated, creative and sustainable actions designed to overcome one or more core challenges in the pursuit of a higher purpose. -- Davide Sola
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game. -- Sidney Sheldon
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. -- Michael Porter
