Quotes about Strategy
You must understand the language of your enemy.
- Barbara Kingsolver
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- Stephen Covey
Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.
- Stephen Covey
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No
- Stephen Covey
You might work on your behavior—you could try harder, be more diligent, double your speed. But your efforts would only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster.
- Stephen Covey
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. You
- Stephen Covey
We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.
- Stephen Covey
I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.
- Stephen Covey
What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars—he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off—but on a global scale!
- Ernest Cline
But I refused to give up. Until an avatar reached Halliday's Easter egg, anything was still possible. Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I began to formulate a plan. A bold, outrageous plan that would require epic amounts of luck to pull off.
- Ernest Cline
A common but futile strategy for achieving joy is trying to eliminate things that hurt: get rid of pain by numbing the nerve ends, get rid of insecurity by eliminating risks, get rid of disappointment by depersonalizing your relationships. And then try to lighten the boredom of such a life by buying joy in the form of vacations and entertainment. There isn't a hint of that in Psalm 126.
- Eugene Peterson