“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius (551BC-479BC)
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun Tzu (544-496BC)
“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
― Criss Jami
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”
― Jonathan Stroud
“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 (1584-1645)
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
― Michael E. Porter
“Every advantage is temporary.”
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“People will copy what you do and how you do it, but they can never copy WHY you are.”
― Zach Mercurio
“Innovation and creativity are the basic ingredients of success.”
― Kevin G. Coleman
“Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions”
—Henry Mintzberg
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
― Sun Tzu (544-496BC)
“Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite”
—Robert Half
“Don’t fool yourself: having a strategy map is not the same as having a strategy”
“An organisation’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage”
—Jack Welch
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”
― Winston S. Churchill (1876-1965)
"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It's about deliberately choosing to be different."
—Michael Porter