Strategy Quotes - Page 7

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

Reasoning culminates in gaining knowledge.

Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.

Why is it there’s no aisle in a grocery or department in a store or menu on a website for “average stuff” or “beige products”? FACT: People never got passionate about mediocre and average. While consumers and clients can find “best deals” and “natural foods” and “artisan goods,” one doesn’t find an aisle or a website menu tab offering “average stuff” without excelling in something (which might explain that while vanilla is necessary for the ice cream sundae, it’s the hot fudge we all crave and talk about).

Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they’re mainly attributions based on performance, is a different matter.

There are no keys to success - only tools.

Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.

Change is constant.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

Retail selling benefits from aggressive publicity.

Darwin's Theory Survival of the Fittest, also applies into Business. Companies which consistently innovate, keep itself updated with customer's needs, market trends, check out their competition and accordingly make the strategy to evolve and keep them ahead of competition are the ones which are best suited for survival in Business Environment Evolution

When you are dealing with an invisible enemy,use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi

The wise communicate in subtle ways.

Noble though it may be, our way of life is nothing but servitude. It does not take long for servitude to turn to subjugation.– Shikandin Draupada

Time should be spent happily without regrets.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Highlighting strengths increases sales.

Sometimes, breaking out of a certain mentality is like planning a prison break. You can't just go for it and hope for the best; it requires strategy.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

Ask yourself if I'm capable of contradictions, Draupadi.Some missions succeed only by their spectacular failure. - Krishn

Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods. – Syoddhan Kauravya

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

Improvements enable adapting to new situations.

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.

Mi táctica es mirarte aprender como sos quererte como sosmi táctica es hablarte y escucharte construir con palabras un puente indestructiblemi táctica es quedarme en tu recuerdo no sé cómo ni sé con qué pretexto pero quedarme en vosmi táctica es ser franco y saber que sos franca y que no nos vendamos simulacros para que entre los dosno haya telón ni abismosmi estrategia es en cambio más profunda y más simple mi estrategia es que un día cualquiera no sé cómo ni sé con qué pretexto por fin me necesites

There are not more than five primary colors  (blue, yellow,  red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a strategem.

Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.

The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.

Love spiritually, not strategically.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

Employees are usually motivated to stay or leave due to their managers.

Look at every ‘revolutionary’ brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as ‘the Killer App’ principle.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. However, if you can only manipulate probability, you can only create a path to victory. But remember, plans can break down. The future is always a step ahead of you. The key is being able to manipulate probability and plan for uncertainty. This way, you don't have to create a path to victory, but manipulate all options so that all paths lead to a victory.

When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.