Top 100 Strategy Transformation Quotes

Let’s see famous Strategy Transformation Quotes

No matter how good today’s strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it. – Constantinos Markides

“Strategy is figuring out what not to do.” ― Steve Jobs
“When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.” – J. P. Morgan
We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company. – Eric Schmidt
Fortunately, it’s still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.– David Hackworth
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” —Sir Winston Churchill
Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete. – Jack Welch
“You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.” ― Steve Jobs
“You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.” – Jack Welch, Former CEO of General Electric.
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.– Rod Blagojevich
“Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.” – Jim Collins, Author of Good To Great

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.– Jack Welch
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.” —Japanese proverb
Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. – Constantinos Markides
“Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.” —Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last
Strategy is simply resource allocation. – Jack Welch
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter, Harvard Business School Professor
“Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.” ― Steve Jobs
Let’s execute along this strategy, but know that we’ll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it. – A.G. Lafley
“Strategy execution is the responsibility that makes or breaks executives.” —Alan Branche and Sam Bodley-Scott, Implementation
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do: we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” ― Steve Jobs

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” —Sun Tzu
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing. — Michael Porter
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking. – Kenichi Ohmae
“Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.” – Robert Filek.
“Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions” —Henry Mintzberg
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. – Stephen Case
“Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.” ― Bill Gates
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies. – Jean Ziegler
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” —Peter Drucker

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously– Michael Porter
“The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish. The company without a strategy 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.
“Hope is not a strategy.” – Vince Lombardi.
“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things” —Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese swordsma
“Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that’s what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.” – Jack Welch
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.- Michael Porter
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. – Michael LeBoeuf
“In reality strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.” – Jack Welch
“Strategy 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
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” –Sun Tzu

“90% of CEOs believe the digital economy will impact their industry, but less than 15% are executing on a digital strategy.”— MIT Sloan and Capgemini
Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you’re going to finish. – Herm Edwards
A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy – J. Kotter
“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’ll go out of business.” ― Bill Gates
“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ” – Mark Zuckerberg
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” – Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.– Martin Lindstrom
“The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.” —Chuck Martin, former vice president, IBM
“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, Co-Founder of LinkedIn
“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.” – Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

There is always a better strategy than the one you have, you just haven’t thought of it yet. – Sir Brian Pitman
“Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.” ― Bill Gates
“People want guidance, not rhetoric; they need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and the authority to act on it.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals. — Onyi Anyado
“Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.” – Thomas Dewar
With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.– Elizabeth Warren
“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.
“Strategy Execution is the responsibility that makes or breaks executives” —Alan Branche and Sam Bodley-Scott, Implementation
“To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.” – Richard Koch
“Let’s execute along this strategy, but know that we’ll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.“-G. Lafley

“There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” –William Hague
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. – Michael Porter
Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation, but from flawless execution. – N. Jain
“Leaders need to provide strategy 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
“Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today’s strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.” – Constantinos Markides
“Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless.”-Morris Chang
“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.”- General George S. Patton Jr.
“There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.” ―Michael Porter
“If we win the hearts and minds of employees, we’re going to have better business success.” – Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors

“A strategy, even a great one, doesn’t implement itself” – Jeroen De Flander, Author of The Art Of Performance
Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. – Sun Tzu
“Strategy 101 is about choices: You can’t be all things to all people.” ― Michael Porter
“We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher, Co-Founder of Southwest Airlines
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” – Laurence J. Peter
“For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.”– Mike Brown
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
“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” ― Michael Porter
“Good business planning is 9 parts execution for every 1 part strategy.” – Tim Berry – Founder of Palo Alto Software
“There is only one growth strategy: work hard.”- William Hague.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. – Gen. Patton
“The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.” ― Michael Porter
“Let’s execute along this strategy, but know that we’ll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.” – A.G. Lafley, Former CEO of P&G
“The entrance strategy is actually more important than exit strategy.” – Edward Lampert.
“You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.” – Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce
“Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite” —Robert Half
“A strategy is necessary because the future is unpredictable.” – Robert Waterman.
“The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.” ― Woody Hayes
“I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.” – Jack Canfield.
“In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s just like chess.” ― Lennox Lewis

“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow is worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba
“Strategy 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.
“Strategy is style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.” –Pete Johnson
“Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.” ― Royce Gracie
“The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses.” ― Daniel Negreanu
“Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” – Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald’s Corp
“Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.” – William H. Hastie.
“Don’t give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.”- Hidetaka Miyazaki.
“Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’” ― Jef I. Richards