20 Powerful Strategy Quotes From Generals, Politicians & CEOs

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions.

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

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.

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

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.

Strategy is not about being the best, but about being unique.

When you’re prepared, you’re more confident. When you have a strategy, you’re more comfortable

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.