Strategy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old strategy quotes, strategy sayings, and strategy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed. Marlin Fitzwater
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions Henry Mintzberg
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together. Max McKeown
The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy. Edward Lampert
Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills. Al Ries
Strategy is a steps which makes you spammer or genius. Ram Gopal Singh
Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy. Marco Pierre White
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. Reid Hoffman
Strategy is choosing to perform activities differently, or to perform distinctly different activities than rivals. Debbie Millman
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. Michael Porter
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. Colin Powell
Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. C. K. Prahalad
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. Peter F. Drucker
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business. Bill Gates
Strategy is worthless unless you can act on it. Nathan Shedroff
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. Michael Porter
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. Henry Mintzberg
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results. Winston Churchill
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
That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be. Dale Earnhardt
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation Max Euwe
Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete. Jack Welch
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Sun Tzu
The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be. Sean Parker
Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles. John Kessel
Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed. Stephen Covey
Strategy is just a winning value proposition, that is, a product or service that customers simply want more than the other options out there. Jack Welch
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. Al Ries
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. Michael Porter
Strategy is about shaping the future. Max McKeown