Quotes about Strategy

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

It is rather pointless to go head to head with strong and entrenched competition. But numerous opportunities can be found in the marketplace for a company to maximize its unique qualities, differentiate its products and services, and go after a specific market segment where its competitors are weak and where you can develop superiority, where you can win battles.

The ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus, and then get the right people in the right seats on the bus.

Whenever you face crunch time in your life or business, mentally call a time-out in the game and focus on getting all the information you can about the situation before you make a decision or overreact.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

Sideways force can be broken though by straight force. Straight force can be stopped by sideways force.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.