Top 525 Strategy Quotes

The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.
Keith Teare
I’m fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there’s a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.
Cindy Morgan
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation’s city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration’s economic recovery strategy for the nation.
Thomas Frank
Israel’s master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
Yair Lapid
I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.
Chad Hurley
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
Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today’s conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
James Carville
The teams that use tanking as a strategy are doing damage. If you’re in tanking mode, that means you’ve got young players who you’re teaching bad habits to. I think that’s unforgivable.
Jeanie Buss
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
Sergei Bubka
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 the fight goes to the ground, it doesn’t take long until I finish it or come back up. Straus does that typical American game plan, that boring strategy with wrestling, taking you down and keeping you there, but this strategy won’t work with me.
Patricio Freire
The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
Jack Keane
I don’t like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there’s something that makes it happen naturally. I don’t like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.
Ziggy Marley
No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly – counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn’t a winning strategy – but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
Mark Zandi
Choosing a role is very difficult. There’s no way to have a strategy.
Lena Olin
More often than not, CEOs are conflict-avoidant because their role is to define vision and strategy than it is to get into confrontations with negative and toxic people which they can’t stand.
Mark Goulston
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
I sketched out what I believed to be my optimal strategy for ‘Jeopardy:’ Play fast, build a stack, bet big, and hope for the best. In my mind, playing a seemingly risky game actually minimizes my chances of losing.
James Holzhauer
Clients say, ‘What’s your strategy,’ and I say, ‘Ask me what I believe first.’ That’s a far more enduring answer.
Ginni Rometty
The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding docum

The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.
Mark Esper
Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.
Chris Christie
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Ralph Merkle
I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I’m a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there’d be more subtlety.
John McEnroe
Our MPs will take decisions on how they’re voting on a day-to-day basis. But I’m the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.
Nicola Sturgeon
You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.
Joe Sestak
The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.
Frans van Houten
Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’
Jef I. Richards
GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.
Royce Gracie
I’ve made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that’s a good career strategy.
Aidan Gillen
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
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Bill Gates
My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.
Parvathy
You cannot stick with the same media strategy forever any more than you can stick with the same football tactics forever.
John W. Henry
A lot of labels always feel the need to tell you how they think the music should be marketed and what songs work best where. I say make music you love doing, come up with a strategy, and put it out there.
Alice Merton
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
America should do more to fix the still-festering housing crisis and overhaul its training schemes so that high joblessness does not become entrenched. Hunkering down for austerity is not enough. The rich world needs a strategy for growth.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.
John C. Bogle
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Steve Lacy
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
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
Carl Icahn
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President’s lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.
Russ Carnahan
It can be easy to become ‘friends’ or ‘connected’ with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.
Lewis Howes
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President’s lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.
Russ Carnahan
The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach, as it always has been. It’s the right way to go. We need clear role allocations, the coach and the captain go and execute and my job is to plan for the future.
Andrew Strauss
A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business – which by the way is a completely rational strategy.
Andy Jassy
China’s strategy is to rob, replicate and replace. China robs American companies of their intellectual property. They replicate our technology.
Tommy Tuberville
I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
Fedor Emelianenko
Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy.
Stanley Ho
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
I don’t like writing grand battles and I find it tiresome to research weapons development and military strategy.
Leigh Bardugo
Punting is an underrated art because of the strategy, s

Punting is an underrated art because of the strategy, skill and athleticism involved.
Skip Bayless
I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company’s) strategy.
John Battelle
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
Jamais Cascio
As an entrepreneur, I’ve learned how crucial it is to be able to call a spade a spade and avoid falling in love with a particular strategy or product. Instead, you need to let the customer tell you what she needs – and to change her as she changes.
Sallie Krawcheck
A lot of times, with campaigns or parties, things are cyclical. We need a long-term strategy on how we continue to engage that goes beyond chair to chair. Always, you are balancing resources with your strategy because you have to win elections.
Ronna McDaniel