Strategy Quotes

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

~ Alvin Toffler

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

~ Michael E. Porter

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

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.

~ Chin-Ning Chu

Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win...

~ Marie Rutkoski

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.

~ Mark Lawrence

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

~ John Christopher

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

~ Robert Lynn Asprin

That's when I realized that as long as you don't broadcast your beefs, you can get away cold with murder. It's even better if you don't allow the beef to take place. If someone disrespects you, you can know in your heard that you're going to get him, but you don't have to show him there's a beef. You can just look at it like, Okay, this nigga must not know. And then you fall back and you put it down.

~ 50 Cent

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

~ Toba Beta

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

~ Andrew Vachss

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.

~ Reggie Joiner

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

~ Howard Tayler

Maxim 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

~ Howard Tayler

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die.

~ Hampton Sides

A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen.

~ Toba Beta

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

~ Kristina Halvorson

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

~ Abhijit V. Banerjee

The eminent strategy had won yesterday,but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Vernor Vinge

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

~ Michael E. Porter

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

~ Michael E. Porter

The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26

~ Michael E. Porter

By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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

~ Robin S. Sharma

If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment.If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25

~ Michael E. Porter

Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful, trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

~ Raymond E. Feist

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.

~ Pearl Zhu

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.

~ Daniel Silva

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

~ Daniel Silva

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on, the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

~ Amy Tan

What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside from the prize at the end. She gets a rush from the gaming dynamics and appreciates the beauty of the game. At the end of the day, you play for the love of the game or not at all.

~ Alisa Melekhina

Strategies that did well in competition with other strategies were not, however, those that maximized the returns to agents. Rather, we found a strong inverse relationship between the mean fitness of individuals in populations containing only one strategy, and that strategy's performance in the tournament. This finding illustrates the parasitic effect of strategies that rely heavily on OBSERVE. Strategies using a mixture of social and asocial learning are vulnerable to being outcompeted by those using social learning alone, which may result in a population with lower average returns. These findings are evocative of an established rule in ecology; this specifies that, among competitors for a scarce resource, the dominant competitor will be the species that can persist at the lowest resource level. An equivalent rule may apply when alternative social learning strategies compete: the strategies that eventually dominates will be the one that can persist with the lowest frequency of asocial learning.

~ Kevin N. Laland

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

~ Michael E. Porter

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25

~ Michael E. Porter

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~ The Sure Bettor

Do not confuse good tactics with good luck.

~ D.e.a. Unknown

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...

~ Plutarch

If all we’re prepared for is unconventional warfare, suddenly a massed conventional attack becomes an asymmetric advantage.

~ Chris Penningroth

Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument.

~ Terry O'reilly