51 Best Strategy & Strategy Planning Quotes

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

Steve Jobs

Strategic planning is worthless – unless there is first a strategic vision.

John Naisbitt

Idea without process is little more than a wish list.

Robert Filek.

If you want to succeed and leave your competitors behind, you need great ideas and even greater strategies.

Pooja Agnihotri

A vision without a idea remains an illusion.

Lee Bolman

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry A. Kissinger

The essence of idea is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish. The company without a idea is willing to try anything. If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.

Michael Porter.

Idea is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

Michael Porter

We have a strategic idea. It’s called ‘doing things’.

Herb Kelleher

 Hope is not a idea.

Vince Lombardi.

Manage the top line: your idea, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Steve Jobs

In reality idea is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Jack Welch

 Strategic ideas is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

Peter Drucker

There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.

Jack Welch.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Steve Jobs

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

Peter Drucker

Idea is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a matter of being different at what you do.

Michael Porter

 Idea plan Michael Porter ning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

William H. Hastie

Idea is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into a plan.

Ellie Pidot.

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their ideas to that change.

Bill Gates

There is only one growth idea: work hard.

William Hague.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a idea that includes customer services.

Bill Gates

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Peter Drucker

Idea without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without idea is the noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

A bad idea will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good idea. If you do enough things poorly, you’ll go out of business.

Bill Gates

The entrance strategy is actually more important than exit strategy.

Edward Lampert

Leaders need to provide idea and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.

Bill Gates

What gets measured gets managed.

Peter Drucker

 Success is 20% skills and 80% idea. You might know how to succeed, but more importantly, what’s your plan to succeed?

Jim Rohn

 Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

A idea is necessary because the future is unpredictable.

Robert Waterman.

There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Michael Porter

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

Peter Drucker

 However beautiful the idea, you should occasionally look at the results.

Sir Winston Churchill

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Kenichi Ohmae

 I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good idea.

Jack Canfield.

 Idea 101 is about choices: You can’t be all things to all people.

Michael Porter

 Culture eats idea for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

Without idea, execution is aimless. Without execution, idea is useless.

Morris Chang

 Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Thomas A. Edison

Be real and adjust your idea according to honest results.

Charles Caleb Corton.

 Globalization means business idea and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

Ofra Strauss.

Sound idea starts with having the right goal.

Michael Porter

Idea is a commodity, execution is an art.

Peter Drucker

 Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

Idea is a pattern in a stream of decisions.

Henry Mintzberg.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Charles de Gaulle

The company without a idea is willing to try anything.

Michael Porter

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael LeBoeuf

Idea is style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

Pete Johnson

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire idea that turns are incredibly high.

Anne M. Mulcahy.