Strategy Quotes

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

~ Sun Tzu

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

~ Ellen Tauscher

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

~ John W. Vessey

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

~ Ellen Ullman

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

~ William Hague

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

~ Eric Ries

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

~ Michael Porter

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

~ Hugo Chavez

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

~ Niall Ferguson

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

~ Lindsey Graham

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

~ Madeleine Albright

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

~ Kofi Annan

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

~ John Romero

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

~ Jesse James Garrett

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

~ Virgil

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

~ Sidney Blumenthal

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

~ Susan Sontag

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

~ Valentino Rossi

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

~ Tom Watson

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

~ Daniel Pipes

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

~ Aleksander Kwasniewski

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

~ Michael Porter

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

~ Jane Fonda

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

~ Jack Welch

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

~ Bruce Henderson

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

~ Sun Tzu

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

~ Andy Stanley

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

~ Barry Commoner

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

~ John P. Kotter