Corporate Strategy Quotes
Top 40 Corporate Strategy Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-barnevik.jpg)
Success is 5% strategy, 95% execution [i.e. implementation].
- Percy Barnevik, boss of the Swedish engineering company, ABB 1988-2002, pictured right.
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In Who Says Elephants Can’t
Dance (2002) Lou Gerstner, IBM's ex-boss, pictured right, agrees:
Execution is really the critical part of a successful strategy
No 2![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-churchill.jpg)
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results,
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British
prime minister, pictured right.
![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
In Management: Tasks,
Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Peter
Drucker, pictured right, says:
The aim of strategic planning is action now.
No 3![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-sun-tzu.jpg)
Know the enemy and know yourself.
-Sun Tzu (lived around 500 BC) ,Chinese general,
pictured right.
He also says:
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics before strategy is the noise before
defeat.
No 4![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-andrews.jpg)
Strategy is a human construction; it must in the long run be responsive to human needs.
- Kenneth Andrews, pictured right, in The Concept of
Corporate Strategy (1971)
No 5![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-packard-david.jpg)
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching
far enough.
- David Packard (1912-96),
co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, pictured right.
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No 6
We must take things as we find them, and not as we wish them to be.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French
leader, pictured right.
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
German-born American scientist, pictured right. said something similar:
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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No 7
The genesis of the strategy process must be a purposely created misfit between where the firm is and where it
wants to be.
- Gary Hamel, pictured right above, and
C. K. Prahalad, pictured right, Competing for the Future (1996)
No 8![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-branson.jpg)
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
- Richard Branson (1950- ),
founder of the British company, Virgin, pictured right.
Some further advice on opportunities:
![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-dell.jpg)
Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity
- Michael Dell (1965- ), founder of
Dell computers, pictured right.
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Don’t sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them!
- Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919), African
American businesswoman, pictured right.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon (1561- 1626),
English philosopher, pictured right.
No 9![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-sun-tzu.jpg)
Those skilled in war subdue the enemy’s army without battle.
- Sun Tzu (lived around 500 BC) ,Chinese general,
pictured right.
No 10![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-marcus-aurelius.jpg)
To pursue the unattainable is insanity.
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180),
Roman emperor and philosopher, pictured right.
No 11![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-roosevelt-ted.jpg)
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American
president, pictured right.
No 12![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
Study the past if you would divine the future.
- Confucius (551- 479 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
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The American revolutionary, Patrick Henry (1736-99),, pictured right. agrees:
I know of no way of judging of the future, but by the past
![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-burke.jpg)
But Edmund Burke (1729-97)
Irish-born British philosopher and politician, pictured right. disagrees:
You can never plan the future by the past
No 13![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-mintzberg.jpg)
Many of the great strategies are simply great visions.
- Henry Mintzberg, pictured right, The Rise and Fall of
Strategic Planning (1994)
No14![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-lincoln.jpg)
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), American
president, pictured right.
No 15![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-hewlett.jpg)
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
- William (Bill)
Hewlett (1919-2001), co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, pictured right.
No 16![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-melbourne.jpg)
When in doubt what should be done, do nothing.
- William Lamb, Lord Melbourne (1779–1848) British prime minister, pictured right.
No 17![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-pope.jpg)
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet, pictured right.
No 18![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-ruskin.jpg)
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
- John Ruskin (1819–1900) English art
writer and philosopher, pictured right.
No 19![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Our virtues lie in th’ interpretation of the time,
(Aufidius in Corialanus)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right
No 20![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-lincoln.jpg)
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe,
- Abraham Lincoln 1809–65, American
president, pictured right.
No 21![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-hardy.jpg)
She did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen,
(about Elizabeth-Jane in The Mayor of
Casterbridge, 1886)
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), pictured right, English writer.
No 22![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-gaarder.jpg)
The reasonable is that which is viable.
(from Sophie’s World, 1991)
- Jostein Gaarder (1952- ), Norwegian writer, pictured right,
No 23![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-keynes.jpg)
When the facts change, I change my mind.
- John Maynard
Keynes (1883-1946), English economist, pictured right.
No 24![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-kim.jpg)
Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating
uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant.
- W. Chan Kim, pictured right, and
Renée Mauborgne, pictured right below,
Blue Ocean
Strategy (2005)
![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-mauborgne.jpg)
In the book they also say:
The creation of blue oceans is about driving costs down while simultaneously driving value up for buyers.
No 25![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-augustine.jpg)
You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds. Lay first the foundation of humility,
- St. Augustine (354-430),
Algerian philosopher, pictured right.
No 26![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-picasso.jpg)
Our goals can only be reached through the vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe and upon which
we must vigorously act.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish
artist, pictured right.
No 27![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-powell.jpg)
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
- Colin Powell (1937- ), American general and Secretary of State, pictured right.
No 28![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-aristotle.jpg)
The whole is worth more than the sum of the parts,
- Aristotle (384-322 BC),
Greek philosopher, pictured right.
No 29![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-eisenhower.jpg)
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969),
American president, pictured right.
No 30![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-engels.jpg)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Friedrich Engels (1820-95), pictured right, co-author of The Communist Manifesto with
Karl Marx .
No 31![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-drucker.jpg)
Long range planning should prevent managers from...dedicating their resources and energies to the defence of
yesterday.
- Peter Drucker, pictured right, in Management: Tasks, Responsibilities,
Practices (1973).
No 32![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Readiness is all.
(Hamlet in Hamlet)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 33![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-henderson.jpg)
Strategy is a deliberate search for a plan of action that will develop a business's competitive advantage and
compound it.
- Bruce D. Henderson (1915-92), founder of the management consultants, the Boston
Consulting Group, pictured right.
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John Kay, pictured right, .in Foundations of Corporate Success (1993)
defines strategy like this:
Corporate strategy is concerned with matching markets to distinctive capabilities
No 34![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-ohmae.jpg)
Successful strategy is based upon an understanding of customers' needs,
- Kenichi Ohmae (1943- ), Japanese management writer and
consultant, pictured right..
No 35![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotesjack.jpg)
To move swiftly, strike vigorously and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.
- Thomas Stonewall
Jackson (1824-63), pictured right, American Civil War general.
No 36![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-napoleon.jpg)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), pictured
right, French leader.
No 37![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-keynes.jpg)
In the long run... we are all dead.
- John Maynard
Keynes (1883-1946), English economist, pictured right.
No 38
A confused army leads to another’s victory
-Sun Tzu (lived around 500 BC) ,Chinese general,
pictured right.
No 39![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-tolstoy.jpg)
A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!
(Prince Andrei in War and Peace)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), pictured right, Russian writer
No 40![Corporate Strategy Quotes Corporate Strategy Quotes](images/quotes-kennedy-jf.jpg)
We've got to figure out what we're going to do before we worry how we're going to do it.
John F. Kennedy ,pictured right (in the 2000
film Thirteen Days).
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