"The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well." - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less chary of the latter than the former; space
we can recover, time never." - Napoleon
"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"The essence of management is to make knowledge productive." - Peter Drucker
"What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is,
in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic
planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors." - Kenichi
Ohmae in "The Mind of the Strategist"
"A strategy is the pattern or plan that integrates an organization's major goals, policies, and action
sequences into a cohesive whole. A well-formulated strategy helps to marshal and allocate an organization's resources into
a unique and viable posture based upon its relative internal competencies and shortcomings, anticipated changes in the environment,
and contingent moves by intelligent opponents." - James Brian Quinn, Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism
"You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your
efforts on it." - Andrew Grove, CEO, Intel
"War is ninety percent information." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"What gets measured gets done; what gets rewarded gets done repeatedly." - Barcy C. Fox
"The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a
business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation." -
Henry Mintzberg
"The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and
agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes
are vital clues to the next cycle of growth..." - Adrian Slywotzky, author of The Profit Zone
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
"If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it." - Peter Drucker
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then,
the solution becomes obvious." - Albert Einstein
"You know only insofar as you can measure." - Lord Kelvin
"When playing poker, the cards you get are dumb luck. Whether you win or lose depends on whether you can
read your opponent" - Charlie, Suicide Kings
"The computer is a moron." - Peter F. Drucker
Simply stated, uncertainty and related disorder can be diminished by the
direct artifice of creating a higher and broader more general concept to represent reality. - John R. Boyd
