Strategy

Military stratagem in the Maneuver against the Romans by Cimbri and Teutons circa 100 B.C.

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, as differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand.

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Life and Business Strategy Quotes

Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

• There webs were spread of more than common size,
  And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
  • Charles Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 327.

• Business strategy is a battle plan for a better future.
  • Patrick Dixon Building a Better Business (2005).

• You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?
  • Patrick Dixon Building a Better Business (2005).

G - L

• We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
  • Bill Gates (2006) in: "The future according to the world's richest man" on independent.co.uk, March 20, 2006

M - R

• Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual
  • Gordon Pask (1972) Learning Strategies and Individual Competence, p. 221

• Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,
  Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), Part I, line 177.

S - Z

• implementation, not strategy, is what usually separates winners from losers in most industries, and generally explains the difference between success and failure
  • Bob Sutton, Strategy Is For Amateurs, Logistics Are For Professionals (2010).

• In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
  • Jack Welch, Winning (2005).

• For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
  Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
  • Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725-28), Satire VI, line 187.

Military Strategy and Strategists Quotes

Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author

A - F

• Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war?
  • The Bible: 2 Kings, 18:20.

• To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
  • Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.), Roman general, statesman. The Civil War, 1.72.

M - R

• Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations.
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, "On Strategy" (1871), as translated in Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings (1993) by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, p. 124
  • Variant: Strategy is a system of expedients. It is more than science, it is the translation of science into practical life, the development of an original leading thought in accordance with the ever-changing circumstances.
    • As quoted in Government and the War (1918) by Spenser Wilkinson

S - Z

• All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
  • Sun Tzu 6th c. bc The Art of War Ch. 6

See also

• Management
• Plans
• Purpose
• Military Strategy