Before, strategies were only for the battlefield, about analyzing attacks and finding a way to defeat the enemy. Today, strategies are applied to our field of personal, work and social development to achieve our dreams.
To understand all the facets of this area of life, in the following lines we will review the best strategy phrases; Inspiring quotes and reflections that invite you to think before acting.
Having a good strategy for our businesses, personal growth and education helps us better reach our objectives, better coordinate teamwork and solve problems in general. These quotes and reflections on the strategy can help you apply it to your life.
1. Surround yourself with people who not only support and accompany you, but also inform your thinking about ways to improve your online presence. (Sean Gardner)
Look for people who are capable of helping you with your dreams by taking advantage of the potential and versatility of the Internet.
2. This is the only thing that matters in good propaganda. It is about creating a slogan that cannot receive any opposition, on the contrary, that everyone is in favor of. (Noam Chomsky)
In the world of marketing, the strategy applied to our public image makes the difference.
3. The strategy is to figure out what not to do. (Steve Jobs)
Part of putting together a good plan is simplifying and avoiding overly complicated procedures.
4. It is evident that strategy does not prevent tactics. (Leon Trotsky)
Things don’t always go as planned.
5. Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions. (Henry Mintzberg)
So we have to take care of the decisions we make.
6. If you are looking for different results, don’t always do the same thing. (Albert Einstein)
Every once in a while, a risky idea succeeds.
7. Creativity without strategy is called “art”. Creativity with strategy is called “advertising”. (Jef I. Richards)
Different ways to use creativity.
8. If you want to feign cowardice to learn the strategy of your opponents, you first have to be extremely brave, because only then can you act artificially timid. (Sun Tzu)
When others underestimate you, you have a greater margin to win.
9. In strategy, it is essential to have sensitivity to opportunity. (Jorge González Moore)
Take advantage of every opportunity you have to improve.
11. Machiavellian strategy and axiom that does not require demonstration: Sow false illusions and you will reign hegemonically in a fragile Nation. (Hermes Antonio Varillas Labrador)
False promises can create vague hopes in a people.
12. It may even sound very childish, but a teacher who excludes play as a strategy is unaware of the potential and strength that he or she dismisses in recreational activities.
Play as learning is always an excellent tool.
13. The best victory is to win without fighting. (Sun Tzu)
To win it is not necessary to go over the other.
14. When you see a good move wait, look for a better one. (Emanuel Lasker)
Patience is essential to carry out a good plan.
15. Who wonders if the enemy was defeated by strategy or courage? (Virgil)
The strategies are reflected in the results.
16. Have you noticed how effective a good defense can be?
When you put together a plan, your path becomes clearer.
17. Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. (General George Patton)
Good execution is needed to carry out a plan successfully.
19. Manage the top line – your strategy, your people and your products – and the bottom line will follow. (Steve Jobs)
Advice from a great entrepreneur.
20. Social Media is not just an activity; It is an investment of valuable time and resources. (Sean Gardner)
Currently, social media is the greatest tool for entrepreneurs.
21. Change is the result of insurmountable market pressure. (Ted Coine)
Everything in the world needs constant changes to grow.
22. Each new change forces all companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change. (Bill Gates)
Without the ability to adapt, we allow ourselves to be consumed by changes.
23. Numerical superiority has no consequences. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician. (Robert Lynn Asprin)
About strategy on the battlefield.
24. Strategy is about making decisions, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. (Michael Porter)
It’s about how to take advantage of the differences in our environment.
25. The purpose of terrorism is not only to kill blindly, but to send a message to destabilize the enemy. (Umberto Eco)
About the political implications of terrorist activity.
26. Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of the fundamentals being applied. (Jim Rohn)
Success comes from all those small triumphs you achieve.
27. Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. (Carlos Ghosn)
Incentives don’t make people stay long.
28. Strategy is politics. People have to live criticizing themselves, because criticism is health; but with one breast and one mind. Go down to the unfortunate people and lift them up in your arms! (Jose Marti)
Criticism makes us notice the flaws that we must repair.
29. Never interrupt an enemy who is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Use it to your advantage.
30. In this world you will not do anything worthwhile if you do not start by developing and transforming yourself. (Robert Greene)
The main thing is to develop our confidence.
31. Not all battles are won by advancing. Not all withdrawals are defeats. Moving forward is a strategy. Withdrawing is also a strategy. A withdrawal must be made. (Takashi Matsuoka)
Success lies in knowing how to analyze opportunities and take a step back when necessary.
32. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and act. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
There is no point in planning indefinitely if you are not going to carry it out.
33. Tell me no and you will have me thinking about you all day, planning the strategy for a yes. (Ricardo Arjona)
There are even strategies in love.
34. Do not repeat the tactics by which you have won a victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. (Sun Tzu)
Surprise with new ideas, because if you do the same thing, you will fall into a routine.
35. Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. (Elbert Hubbard)
If we learn from our experiences, we can find the destination we dream of.
36. I can’t change the desert in a single day but I can start by making an oasis. (Phil Bosmans)
Every beginning is difficult, but it is necessary.
37. Strategy without process is little more than a wish list. (Robert Filek)
It is not enough to organize, but to create the necessary steps to generate actions.
38. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. (Michael Porter)
Many focus on their ambitions, but leave aside the things they need to prevent.
39. A vision without a strategy remains an illusion. (Lee Bolman)
To fulfill a dream you need an action plan.
40. Strategy without tactics is the slowest path to victory. Tactics without strategy are noise before defeat. (Sun Tzu)
You need both to win.
41. Only a few companies will be successful by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services. (Bill Gates)
The client must always be present in any commercial strategy.
42. You can never go wrong investing in communities and the humans within them. (Pam Moore)
It is people who make dreams come true.
43. Be genuine. Be good. Know your audience. (Calvin Lee)
Don’t try to be someone else.
44. In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who is often willing and able to take on any role necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, usable content. (Kristina Halvorson)
The benefits of using a good marketing strategy.
45. Every time you find someone more successful than you, especially when you are both involved in the same business, you know they are doing something that you are not doing. (Malcolm x)
Strategies also need to be changed when they don’t work.
46. You can’t be everything to everyone. If you decide to go north, you cannot go south at the same time. (Jeroen De Flander)
Have a specific audience instead of focusing on everyone.
47. No one should be appointed to a management position if their vision focuses on people’s weaknesses, rather than their strengths. (Ferdinand Drucker)
Strengths must be highlighted and weaknesses helped to be improved.
48. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. (Albert Einstein)
We always have to focus on one thing, instead of trying to cover everything.
49. Do not hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid doing so, but never hit softly. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Take forceful actions if necessary, but do not abuse your power.
50. They always focus on the front windshield but never on the rearview mirror. (Collin Powell)
It’s important to face mistakes, rather than sweep them under the table.
51. The hunter knows very well where he has to set his nets for the deer and in what valley the ferocious boar hides. (Ovid)
Use the hunter’s strategy to get better opportunities.
52. I really don’t understand your strategy. Maybe someone else understands it. (Steve Ballmer)
If something is not for you, don’t force it.
53. It is easy to avoid the spear, but not the hidden dagger. (Chinese proverb)
Sometimes we are the ones who are our worst enemy.
54. In preparing for battle I have found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Planning helps organize all the steps that need to be taken.
55. There is always a better strategy than the one you have, you just haven’t thought of it yet. (Brian Pitman)
But while you discover them, don’t stay with your arms crossed.
56. Strategy is the use of the encounter to achieve the objective of war. (Karl von Clausewitz)
Use your tools and knowledge to your advantage.
57. Failure is nothing more than an opportunity to review your strategy. (Anonymous)
Failure allows us to review and improve our actions.
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58. In reality, the strategy is actually very simple. You choose a general direction and implement like hell. (Jack Welch)
A very interesting way to see strategies.
59. Hope is not a strategy. (Vince Lombardi)
Hope can be a driving force, but it is not a basis for moving forward.
60. Some key elements including leadership, strategy, structure and capability are needed to shape a customer-centric digital business. (Pearl Zhu)
Strategies in the digital age.
61. Strategists need insight into game theory for game-changing strategy in our platform world. (Cissoko Mamady)
Many strategists see their path as a game to win.
62. When we are sharing stories to bond with other like-minded people, we want to give them social currency with the highest transfer value we can. (Jay Oatway)
Being transparent today counts more than any other business strategy.
63. Going viral is not a result; It is an event. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity. (Lori Taylor)
An important reflection for all those entrepreneurs.
64. One of the best ways to sabotage your content is to not link it to your goals. (Ellen Gomes)
Everything you do must go hand in hand with your goals.
65. The company without a strategy is willing to try anything. (Michael Porter)
Although it is okay to take risks, we cannot do so blindly.
66. Success does not necessarily come from revolutionary innovation, but from impeccable execution. (Naveen Jain)
It’s not about being the first, but the best.
67. Every public relations tactic must obey a strategy that gives coherence, consistency and effectiveness to the public relations program. (Octavio Rojas)
Whatever you do with your business has to be close enough to your audience.
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68. Without a compass, a ship would not find its port or be able to estimate the time required to get there. (Peter Drucker)
This is why it is important to have a plan to follow.
69. Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment. (Jim Collins and Jerry Porras)
Tips for building a company.
70. A leader needs enough understanding to design an intelligent strategy. (J. Kotter)
A leader needs to know how to use things to his advantage.
71. Do not pressure a desperate enemy. An exhausted animal will continue to fight, because that is the law of nature. (Sun Tzu)
When we corner someone, we are only giving them strength.
72. The secret of my success is to pay as if I were prodigal and to sell as if I were bankrupt. (Henry Ford)
The key to success according to Ford.
73. A satisfied customer is the best strategy in all businesses. (Michael Leboeuf)
Customers are the soul of business success.
74. The main thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut your enemy, whatever the means. (Miyamoto Musashi)
If you are going to do something, let it be to stand out from your opponents.
75. We should think about big things while doing small things, that way the details go in the right direction. (Alvin Tofler)
Big things are achieved with small and constant actions.
76. What’s the point of running if you’re not on the right track? (Proverb)
First you have to know the path you want to take.
77. The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; The man of action who does not think is dangerous. (Richard M. Nixon)
Action and thought must go hand in hand.
78. Always leave a way out, unless you really want to know how hard a man is capable of fighting when he has nothing to lose. (Robert Jordan)
Not only do you have to fight to get in, but you have to ensure a future to retire.
79. The only sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do. (Donald Trump)
Knowledge is the main thing to succeed.
80. Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man cannot control. (Mike Norton)
The risk is always present.
81. Where the greyhound least thinks, the hare jumps. (Proverb)
Thinking differently can open the doors you need.
82. Stay focused. Its beginning does not determine how it will end. (Herm Edwards)
Sometimes the road can give us many surprises that we must take advantage of.
83. Climb the mountain just a little, to see if it is a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you will not be able to see the mountain. (Frank Herbert)
A phrase that clearly shows us the importance of the path and not the summit.
84. A great strategy alone will not win a game or a battle; victory comes from basic blocking and tackling. (Naveen Jain)
The strategy needs actions in its favor.
85. Soccer is a game of strategy and tactics. (Woody Hayes)
All the activities we carry out need a strategy.
86. If you are truly relevant to the audience, they will pay attention to you. (Martha Gabriel)
So look for your relevance.
87. Our digital future is to enable better productivity and make decisions to enjoy a better quality of life. (Yacine Baroudi)
The purpose of the digital future.
88. If you don’t have a fair goal, you will eventually suffer. By doing the right thing, for the right reason, the right result awaits. (Chin Ning Chu)
In conclusion, you have to do things with good intentions.
89. Look. I have a strategy. Why wait for something? If you don’t expect anything, you won’t be disappointed. (Patricia McCormick)
It is always good to control our expectations.
90. Battles are about strategy, and strategy revolves around priorities. (Mark Lawrence)
Your goal should be divided into priorities.
91. Whenever we want to combat our enemies, we must first of all begin by understanding them instead of exaggerating their motives. (Criss Jami)
Understanding saves us from many misunderstandings
92. In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it’s like chess. (Lennox Lewis)
All sports need an execution plan.
93. Strategy execution is the responsibility that makes or breaks executives. (Alan Branche and Sam Bodley-Scott)
Therefore you must be careful in each step of your execution. But don’t doubt her.
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94. When I am dealing with an invisible enemy I use most resources as a shield…and a little bait. (Beta Tuff)
An interesting way to use resources to our advantage.
95. Strategy must evolve outside the mud of the market, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. (Al Ries)
