Effective business planning isn’t just about setting goals—it’s about clarity, adaptability, and customer-centric thinking. Gain inspiration and actionable insights from business leaders, entrepreneurs, and strategists to refine your approach and guide your business toward sustainable growth.
- “A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” – Lee Bolman
- “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
- “Hope is not a strategy.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Just because you’re busy doesn’t mean you’re making progress.” – Allison Dunn
- “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – Sun Tzu
- “You cannot be everything to everyone. If you decide to go north, you cannot go south at the same time.” – Jeroen De Flander
- “Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action.” – Ellie Pidot
- “Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.” – Robert Filek
- “In reality strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.” – Jack Welch
- “Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” – Michael Porter
- “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter
- “Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.” – Pete Johnson
- “Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to succeed, but more importantly, what’s your plan to succeed?” – Jim Rohn
- “Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless.” – Morris Chang
- “A great vision only works when paired with a concrete action plan.” – Allison Dunn
- “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.” – Peter Drucker
- “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” – William Hague
- “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill
- “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf
- “There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.” – Philip Kotler
- “You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.” – Charles de Gaulle
- “A business without a plan is like a journey without a map. Clarity of purpose, paired with bold action, turns strategy into success.” – Allison Dunn
- “Be real and adjust your strategy according to honest results.” – Charles Caleb Colton
- “The best marketing strategy ever: Care.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
“Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.” – Larry Bossidy - “Always start at the end before you begin.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.” – Jack Canfield
- “When your headlights aren’t on, the best rearview mirror available isn’t likely to improve your driving.” – Martha Rogers
- “A strategy is necessary because the future is unpredictable.” – Robert H. Waterman Jr.
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.” – Seth Godin
- “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
- “Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jef I. Richards
- “A vision and strategy aren’t enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day.” – Richard M. Kovacevich
- “Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.” – Michael Porter
- “Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.” – Rudy Giuliani
- “Your strategy today should be a living, breathing entity, constantly evolving.” – Allison Dunn
- “We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.” – Henry B. Eyring
- “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” – Susan Sontag
- “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter
- “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” – William Hague
- “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
- “In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. ‘I’ma do this, I’ma do that, this is gonna happen, that’s gonna happen.’ And a lot of stuff don’t go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That’s how I compare chess to life.” – Tee Grizzley
- “Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.” – Naomi Wolf
- “Don’t give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.” – Hidetaka Miyazaki
- “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
- “I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.” – Jack Canfield
- “Stock market goes up or down, and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.” – John Paulson
- “Your business plan is a roadmap that will help you with focus and accountability. When you write down your plan, you’ll make it easier to measure your progress and course correct when necessary. That’s why I recommend writing a business plan, even if you don’t have investors.” – Allison Dunn
- “In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess.” – Lennox Lewis
- “Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.” – Miyamoto Musashi
- “Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.” – Anne M. Mulcahy
- “One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy – a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.” – Nino Schurter
- “The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.” – Daniel Negreanu
- “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
- “I don’t have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.” – Terence Tao
- “A business plan is a blueprint, not a script. It should guide your decisions while leaving room for innovation and adaptation.” – Allison Dunn
- “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
- “The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.” – Michael Porter
- “Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.” – Jamais Cascio
- “Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change in 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
- “Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.” – Pat Gillick
- “Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.” – Max Euwe
- “In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul – that’s always the strategy.” – Jorge Masvidal
- “Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.” – Ofra Strauss
- “A well-structured business plan aligns strategy, execution, and resources. Without it, growth is just a series of expensive experiments.” – Allison Dunn
- “Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?” – Virgil
- “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” – Michael LeBoeuf
- “Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.” – Naveen Jain
- “Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It’s part ballet. It’s part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.” – Steve Sabol
- “What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm’s exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm’s risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take.” – Jerome Powell
- “Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” – Michael Porter
- “Strategy 101 is about choices: You can’t be all things to all people.” – Michael Porter
- “We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.” – Sharan Burrow
- “The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.” – Ryan Holiday
- “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
- “Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.” – John P. Kotter
- “As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to ‘close with, and destroy, the enemy.’ Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.” – Pete Hegset
- “Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game – it is the game.” – Oscar Munoz
- “The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.” – Michael Porter
- “Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.” – Alicia Garza
- “You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.” – Leon Trotsky
- “The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” – Michael Porter
- “The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.” – Edward Lampert
- “For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, Think big but start small.” – Carmen Busquets
- “As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float – and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.” – Ryan Holmes
- “There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.” – Michael Porter
- “A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.” – Rod Blagojevich
- “Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy’s place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.” – John Berger
- “What I found over the years is the most important thing is for a team to come together over a compelling vision, a comprehensive strategy for achieving that vision, and then a relentless implementation plan.” – Alan Mulally
- “Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what’s going to happen, but it’s also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you’re not going to get it right at the very beginning.” – Martin Dempsey
- “My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.” – Henry Sy
- “We need a better strategy to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthier and better educated.” – Rajiv Gandhi
- “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
- “Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.” – Carlos Ghosn
- “The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.” – Michael Porter
- “Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you’re crossing a minefield; it’s a disaster when you’re in a gold rush.” – John Ortberg
- “Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.” – Ben Silbermann
- “The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.” – John Podhoretz
- “For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going – that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity. But when mergers fail, it’s often because no one focused on who they are – that is, their culture, which is critical to successfully bringing different groups of people together.” – Punit Renjen
- “Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it’s got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.” – Kiran Bedi
- “Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.” – Richard Roeper
- “My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.” – Gautam Adani
- “Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.” – Max McKeown
- “Renewable energy is an essential part of our strategy of decarbonization, decentralization, as well as digitalization of energy.” – Isabelle Kocher
- “It’s not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It’s your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.” – Jack Ma
- “Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.” – Michael Porter
- “If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There’s a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.” – Jack Nicklaus
- “Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it’s about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.” – Andrea Jung
- “I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.” – Alexander Downer
- “In Spain, the game’s a lot more open. They score a lot more goals. They play football more. Here in Italy, they are much more concerned with tactics and strategy, and sometime we don’t play football.” – Ronaldo
- “To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.” – Park Ji-sung
- “Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord’s side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.” – Sheri L. Dew
- “I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.” – Jerry Yang
- “A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.” – Jack Welch
- “There’s just a spirit about you that it’s such a beautiful art form in which you can implement strategy in order to subdue another individual. And I really feel like that’s in wrestling and UFC; we’re kind of – we collaborate in that way.” – Jordan Burroughs
- “A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.” – Michael Porter
- “I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It’s very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.” – Allyson Felix
- “Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.” – John Edwards
- “Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.” – Bhagat Singh
- “And I guess what I would say is that we can’t think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can’t necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.” – Angela Davis
- “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
- “I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The ‘going public’ may also be an exit strategy for the top management.” – Marc Rich
- “Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.” – Priscilla Chan
- “My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case’s unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company’s legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.” – Judy Smith
- “Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn’t to say there aren’t entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there’d be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.” – Cynthia Kenyon
- “Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation’s S&T strategy.” – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- “The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer’s successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers’ marketers – and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks – tend to do the same basic things for all books.” – M. J. Rose
- “Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.” – Sun Tzu
- “It’s very clear that AI is going to impact every industry. I think that every nation needs to make sure that AI is a part of their national strategy. Every country will be impacted.” – Jensen Huang
- “I’m in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won’t be able to. So, I don’t have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.” – Tom Welling
- “Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.” – Frank Muir
- “Our strategy should be based on indigenization and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.” – Baba Kalyani
- “I got an album concept called ‘Exit Strategy,’ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I’m undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent’s strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I’ll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad.” – Ryan Kwanten
- “As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.” – Jamshyd Godrej
- “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 adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.” – Jane Fonda
- “The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.’s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.” – Tim Cook
- “Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.” – Anita Brookner
- “Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.” – Grover Norquist
- “If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.” – Jack Welch
- “The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.” – Kim Jong-un
- “When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you’re feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.” – Ernie Els
- “The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau’s special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.” – Stanley Ho
- “We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.” – Elizabeth Esty
- “Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.” – Sreenivasan
- “I really don’t have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, If it gets too hard, get up and leave.” – Andy Grove
- “Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. ‘Millions agree, everyone knows, many have done it.’” – Pamela Meyer
- “Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who’s using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.” – Anthony Noto
- “You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.” – Charles de Gaulle
- “My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn’t carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.” – Stone Cold Steve Austin
- “Our first use of cash is invested organically, secondly returning values our shareholders – roughly 100 percent free cash flow. And then thirdly, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships that complement our organic strategy. We are going to continue down that path.” – Dennis Muilenburg
- “In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.” – Michael Porter
- “My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.” – Parvathy
- “We continue to advise that investors remain committed to a patient, long-term outlook and that the best way to do well in stocks is to use a disciplined, time-tested strategy that has the benefit of empirically tested results over a variety of market environments.” – James O’Shaughnessy
- “If your strategy calls for you to be in America, then you will go into America. If your strategy calls for you to be in M&A, then you’ll do an acquisition. You usually acquire a company to acquire technology, geographic advantage, etc. Similarly, geographic expansion is very much like M&A. It’s done to advance a strategy.” – Anand Mahindra
- “I don’t even think of it as a strategy. It’s me in my element; it’s my forte. Me being with all the mandem on the ends, spitting to an old school grime riddim, is me in my element; that’s when I feel I’m at my best.” – Stormzy
- “Weeks go by, and I don’t paint until finally I can’t stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don’t want to talk about it, because I don’t want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.” – Gerhard Richter
- “The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit. You can only get to zero.” – Eliyahu Goldratt
- “The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.” – Pierre Nanterme
- “The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.” – Frank Gaffney
- “As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive. Understanding what AI can do and how it fits into your strategy is the beginning, not the end, of that process.” – Andrew Ng
- “Even for defeating extremists, you need more than a military strategy.” – Mohammad Javad Zarif
- “Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.” – Howard Schultz
- “The majority of the world’s Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.” – Gijs de Vries
- “But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.” – Brent Scowcroft
- “My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.” – Mark V. Hurd
- “There is a feeling among the Arabs – encouraging terrorist activity is part of the broad new Arab strategy – that sooner or later, Israel will be forced to withdraw from Samaria, Judea and Gaza.” – Ariel Sharon
- “Business is another kind of world that I don’t think is as passionate. It is not the pressure to perform as you have in football. It is more about strategy, skill, about how you deal with all the information you have. Some of the things from football I can bring to business, and some things from business I can bring to football.” – Gerard Piqué
- “You build your own strategy. You don’t define it by what another competitor is doing.” – Ginni Rometty
- “Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.” – Miguel de Icaza
- “The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.” – Adena Friedman
- “We intend to follow one strategy: that is to reach out to each and every resident in the constituency. We do not believe in just waving to the people from cars.” – Atishi
- “The French elites’ strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.” – Mehdi Hasan
- “Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.” – Barack Obama
- “I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to ‘teach’ or ‘convert’ people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a ‘therapist’ in the pulpit.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Giving feels good, but it’s also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we’re doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won’t mention an advertisement; they’ll say a friend told them our story.” – Blake Mycoskie
- “Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.” – Anita Brookner
- “If you can’t define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we’re wasting our money, and we’re wasting our strategic resources.” – Jon Huntsman Jr.
- “One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.” – Scott Adams
- “What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.” – Steve Lacy
- “If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‘Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,’ you’re working for you.” – Jocko Willink
- “I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy – let alone their chat app strategy – and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot.” – Harper Reed
- “You know the best thing about competition? There’s this whole strategy game, and when it all works out it’s like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you’re so happy.” – Shaun White
- “When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.” – Carl Icahn
- “We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.” – Roger McNamee
- “Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.” – Genesis P-Orridge
- “I start with people’s growth, my own growth included. I don’t start with the company’s strategy or products. I start with people’s growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company’s growth will in many respects take care of itself.” – James McNerney
- “It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.” – Václav Klaus
- “In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
- “The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “Choosing a role is very difficult. There’s no way to have a strategy.” – Lena Olin
- “The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.” – Masaaki Imai
- “So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that’s what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.” – Jay Alan Sekulow
- “The only sustainable competitive advantage is your innovation culture.” – Soren Kaplan
- “Being tough on China is one thing. Being completely erratic with no strategy and dragging businesses and farmers through the mud, using them as pawns in the game, is not the way to beat China.” – Tim Ryan
- “When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn’t apply to perishable items, and you don’t want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you’re going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.” – Jean Chatzky
- “I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
- “Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.” – Roy Bennett
- “Organizations are successful because of good implementation, not good business plans.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.” – Yogi Berra
- “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.” – Paula Nelson
- “Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.” – Brian Tracy
- “If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” – Henry Kissinger
- “Any business plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.” – Jeff Bezos
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
- “If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.” – Bill Rancic
- “Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.” – Jim Rohn
- “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.” – Steve Jobs
- “Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you’re not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you’re doing will make you $100 million.” – Swizz Beatz
- “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
- “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin
- “The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.” – Kenichi Ohmae
- “Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.” – Karen Mills
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