#strategy

who wishes to fight must first count the cost ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23 ↗

— Gary Hamel

#creativity #strategy #business

Love spiritually, not strategically. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#quotes #relationships #spiritual #spirituality #strategic

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy. ↗

— Reggie Joiner

#family

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer ↗

— Robert Lynn Asprin

#strategy #humor

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy. ↗

— Max McKeown

#goals #innovation #leadership #management-and-leadership #risk

The real heart of strategy is the strategist. ↗

— Max McKeown

#leadership #strategist #strategy #leadership

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#life-philosophy #possibility #strategy #inspirational

Well O. the thing's sick. It's even sicker than 4. Was it 4? The one you said that Loach inspired, where you'd supposedly just that very day dropped out of Jesuit seminary after umpteen years of disciplined celibacy because of carno-spiritual yearnings you hadn't even been quite in touch with as carno-spiritual in nature until you just now this very moment laid eyes on the Subject? With the breviary and rented collar?’ 'That was 4, yes. 4's pretty much of a gynecopia also, but within a kind of narrower demographic psychological range of potential Subjects. Notice I never said 4 was no-miss.’ 'Well you must be a very proud young man. This is even sicker. The fake ring and fictional spouse. It's like you're inventing somebody you love just to seduce somebody else into helping you betray her. What's it like. It's like suborning somebody into helping you desecrate a tomb they don't know is empty.’ 'This is what I get for passing down priceless fruits of hard experience to somebody who still thinks it's exciting to shave.’ 'I ought to go. I have a blackhead I have to see to.’ 'You haven't asked why I called right back. Why I'm calling during high-toll hours.’ 'Plus I feel some kind of toothache starting, and it's the weekend, and I want to see Schacht before Mrs. Clarke's confectionery day in the sun tomorrow. Plus I'm naked. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#experience

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #strategy #wisdom #religion