Strategy Quotes - Page 22

• The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Levels

  8 Copy quote

• The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Soldier

  8 Copy quote

• In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Lying

  20 Copy quote

• [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Decision, Battle

  9 Copy quote

• It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Iraq, Victory

  4 Copy quote

• Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother Daughter, Men, Winning

  9 Copy quote

• What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

  Enver Masud

  Suicide, Believe, Islamic

  4 Copy quote

• Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Lying, Fire, Practice

  Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Agency, Light, Design

  11 Copy quote

• As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.

  Vance Packard

  Blue, Sky, Numbers

  23 Copy quote

• Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.

  Max McKeown

  Art, War, Creative

  4 Copy quote

• The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

  Michael Klare

  Keys, Usa, Iraq

  4 Copy quote

• How much time have you invested in thinking about strategy? How many options have you considered before the plan was written? How have you ensured that the thinking behind the plan is challenged? How much time do you spend exploring trends, possibilities and cool stuff? How much time is spent playing with ideas, hopes and dreams?

  Max McKeown

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

  Max McKeown

  Mind, Meetings, Meetings Of The Minds

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.148, Pearson UK

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Games, Tactics

  12 Copy quote

• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

  Edward Lampert

  Important, Exit, Entrances

  8 Copy quote

• Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

  Max McKeown

  Mean, Brilliant, Ends

  4 Copy quote

• If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

  Francis Chan

  Goal, Would Be, Purpose

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.151, David C Cook

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

  Max McKeown

  Clever, Self, Victory

  7 Copy quote

• Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Pay, Results

  4 Copy quote

• There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

  Robert Bork

  Groups, Abandoned, Program

  7 Copy quote

• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Reality, Bankers, Expansion

  7 Copy quote

• Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

  6 Copy quote

• In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Book, Games, Play

  26 Copy quote