Strategy Quotes

In many instances, the failures of my greatest schemes ultimately lead to the fulfillment of my greatest successes. Therefore, God will allow our most cherished dreams to perish so that we might turn and seek out His most cherished plans.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Was i Doomed from the Start?Some pundits have also said my campaign was doomed from the start, either because of my weaknesses as a candidate or because America was caught up in a historic wave of angry, tribal populism sweeping the world. Maybe. But don't forget I wan the popular vote by nearly three million, roughly the same margin by which George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in 2004. It's hard to see how that happens if I'm hopeless out of step with the American people. Still as I've discussed throughout this book, I do think it's fair to say there was a fundamental mismatch between how i approach politics and what a lot of the country wanted to hear in 2016. I've learned that even the best plans and proposals can land on deaf ears when people are disillusioned by a broken political system and disgusted with politicians. When people are angry and looking for someone to blame, they don't want to hear your ten-point plan to create jobs and raise wages. They want you to be angry, too.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

~ Felix O. Hartmann

As Waterman has noted: In today’s business environment, more than in any preceding era, the only constant is change. Successful organizations effectively manage change, continuously adapting their bureaucracies, strategies, systems, products, and cultures to survive the shocks and prosper from the forces that decimate the competition.

~ Fred David

Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

~ Sharon Weil

Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.

~ Robert Waterman

At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change.

~ J.r. Rim

The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

~ Andrew Zolli

I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

~ Frank Herbert

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

~ Jon Meacham

If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.

~ Farshad Asl

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

~ Craig Groeschel

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

~ Pearl Zhu

Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts

~ Aayush Jain

Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song.

~ Dilip Bathija

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

~ George F. Will

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

~ Davis Miller

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

~ Geraldine Brooks

The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

~ Gary Chapman

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

~ Douglas Macarthur

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

~ David Halberstam

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective, the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

~ Pearl Zhu

Study the past if you would define the future.

~ Confucius

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

~ Horatio Nelson

Every new situation requires new strategy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

~ Richie Norton

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Thinking and planning is one side of life, doing is another. A man cannot bedoing all the time.

~ Mary Stewart

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

~ Craig Ferguson

The mind can be hunted, but hunting needs the mind.

~ Waheed Ibne Musa

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

~ A.j. Darkholme