Strategy Quotes - Page 5

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism!

Israelmore Ayivor

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Strategy is about shaping the future.

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you.

Sun Tzu

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

Sun Tzu

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream. It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

Sun Tzu

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Sun Tzu

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

Sun Tzu

If his forces are united, separate them.

Sun Tzu

who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits

Sun Tzu

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

Sun Tzu

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

Sun Tzu

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Sun Tzu

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

Sun Tzu

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

Sun Tzu

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Sun Tzu

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

Sun Tzu

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

Sun Tzu

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

Sun Tzu

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

Sun Tzu

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Sun Tzu

if you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

Sun Tzu

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Sun Tzu

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

Sun Tzu

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

Sun Tzu

There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Sun Tzu

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

Sun Tzu

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

Sun Tzu

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

Sun Tzu

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Sun Tzu

Danger has a bracing effect.

Sun Tzu

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Sun Tzu

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations.

Sun Tzu

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Sun Tzu

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

Sun Tzu

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Sun Tzu

If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

Sun Tzu

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Sun Tzu

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

Sun Tzu

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out how to execute better.

Robert G. Thompson

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

The typical industry approach is [retailers] to treat vendors like the enemy... If vendors can't make a profit then they don't have money to invest in research and development, which in turn means that the products they bring to the market will be less inspiring to customers, which in turn detriments the retailer's business because customers aren't inspired to buy. People want to cut costs and negotiate aggressively because there's a limited amount of profit to be shared by both sides. As a result of this "death spiral", most retailers fail.

What's on your billboard?

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.

You can either learn to live with your Kryptonite or you can conquer it. Do what others don’t and you will have a distinct strategic advantage.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Branding is the art of differentiation

Life is made up of dots

There are no keys to success - only tools.

One can always sell something by offering the lowest price. But this does not create loyalty to your brand. Never did and never will. It only creates “loyalty” to that price point. As soon as your guest or visitor is offered a better price, he or she will jump ship, leaving you like a scorned lover in the middle of the night.

Brands are either built on reruns or coming attractions. The future has no road map while the past does. Creating a brand that blazes new trails can sometimes be bumpy but will also allow you to be the first to discover something new, something meaningful and something that makes others ask, “Why didn’t we think of that?” Be very scared of “old tricks” and build a spirit of innovation. It’s the “old tricks” that have the highest risk, not doing something bold.

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

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