Business Strategy Quotes - Page 2

• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• 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.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Strong, Procrastination, Sight

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• 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

  Inspirational, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Illustrated Art of War”, p.144, Courier Corporation

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• The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Know the enemy and know yourself.

  Sun Tzu

  Fear, Military, War

  The Art of War ch. 3 (translation by Yuan Shibang)

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Organization, Civil War, Events

  Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

  James Daly

  Business, Tools, Internet

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• If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Warrior

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

  Herodotus

  Opportunity, Views, Decision

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• Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

  Howard Schultz

  Cutting, Cost, Way

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• A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Business, Order, Accomplishment

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• What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Artist, People, Giving

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• Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

  Howard Schultz

  Cutting, Strategy

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• If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is

  Paul Gilding

  Business, Commitment, Growth

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• Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

  Jamie Dimon

  Hands, Organization, Growth

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• I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

  Vinod Khosla

  Opportunity, Strategy, Faster

  "Interview: Vinod Khosla Is On The Hunt For Great Technologies". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. September 12, 2009.

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• It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Work Out, Use

  Thorstein Veblen (1964). “The Nature of Peace”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  Ursula Burns

  Powerful, Practice, Careers

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• Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Heart, Creativity

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