Strategy Quotes

• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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• The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

  Michael Porter

  Essence, Deep Thought, Transcendentalism

  Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1721, Harvard Business Review Press

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• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Execution, Commodity

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• Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

  Michael Porter

  Goal, Sound, Tactics And Strategy

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• In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Hell, Straightforward

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Opposites, Planning, Starting

  Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education

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• Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

  Michael Porter

  Competition, Being Different, Matter

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Business, Character

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• You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Change, Leadership, Gnarly

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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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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Motivation, Sacrifice

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• The future influences the present just as much as the past.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Future, Past

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• Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

  Henry Mintzberg

  Decision, Patterns, Streams

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• I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.

  Adam Khoo

  Believe, People, Impossible

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mean, Purpose, Investing

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

  Seth Godin

  Positivity, Long, Standing Out

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• If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2016

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• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Rude, Decision, Destination

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

  Michael Porter

  Continuity

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