Strategy Quotes - Page 5

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

To discover strategy is to fulfill mandate

An angry enemy is a conquered enemy

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

Training of parts leads to training of the whole.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of shooting range.

One can always sell something by offering the lowest price. But this does not create loyalty to your brand. Never did and never will. It only creates “loyalty” to that price point. As soon as your guest or visitor is offered a better price, he or she will jump ship, leaving you like a scorned lover in the middle of the night.

In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them

Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

A positive change in approach improves quality.

Branding is the art of differentiation

The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.

Compromise makes relationships survive.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

I believe that if that vision or dream comes from God, He will also give you the strategy to bring it to pass.

You'll contact with me by the pressure, the need or by the interest ".

To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.

Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26

If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

It is actually a good survival strategy to manipulate twist, and reorganize the truth in a way that is more consistent with what we can psychologically tolerate.

Needless documentation hampers performance.

Social media isn’t a brand strategy. Social media is a channel. While it’s important for a brand to develop something to say, it’s more important to create something that will be heard.

Mutually helping team members achieve both individual and team objectives.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value — which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it’s merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

For further communication, previous communication may be archived or discarded.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

Strategy is about heading North while keeping an eye on the South.

Those benefiting from the status quo, resist change.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

If the difficult tasks are completed first, then the remaining tasks seem easy.

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time

The highest training trains oneness.

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

It is time to euthanize change management.

For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26

If his forces are united, separate them.

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship.

Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

When you know your enemy is invincible,run and hide, or may do business with him.

Our relations seemed poor to me, and I wasn't surprised that the US intelligence picture in the Horn of Africa was weak. Much of what I read consisted of recycled news headlines repackaged as intelligence. Real, valuable intelligence only came from real people, yet we hadn't done much to meet and work with the people.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

For too long now divinity and destiny have legitimized what reason and compassion would not. An individual for a family, a family for the kingdom, a kingdom for an empire... And now – an empire for humanity.– Govinda Shauri

If one can call anticipation of enemy reactions based on a lifetime of professional training and on thinking and application "intuition," he had it ... He was a professional soldier, a student of history

Men like you and I make myths, we weave stories to sanctify the life that has been given to us. But not Govinda. Men like him don’t make myths; they make destiny. – Kshatta Vidur

It may be of interest to future generals to realize that one makes plans to fit circumstances stances and does not create circumstances to fit plans. That way danger lies.