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Strategy Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”
J.P. Morgan
Problem-solving
,
Clarity
,
Thinking
,
Strategy
,
Simplicity
2.
“I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.”
J.P. Morgan
Law
,
Strategy
,
Rights
,
Knowledge
,
Execution
3.
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
John D. Rockefeller
Wealth
,
Business
,
Strategy
,
Success
,
Finance
4.
“It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.”
John D. Rockefeller
Business
,
Efficiency
,
Productivity
,
Strategy
,
Success
5.
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
John D. Rockefeller
Opportunity
,
Success
,
Resilience
,
Strategy
,
Growth
6.
“Own nothing, control everything.”
John D. Rockefeller
Power
,
Control
,
Strategy
,
Influence
,
Wealth
7.
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
John D. Rockefeller
Money
,
Investment
,
Strategy
,
Risk
,
Wealth
8.
“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
Focus
,
Business
,
Investment
,
Success
,
Strategy
9.
“The secret of success is not doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.”
Andrew Carnegie
Leadership
,
Success
,
Delegation
,
Management
,
Strategy
10.
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
Opportunity
,
Success
,
Strategy
,
Competition
,
Business
11.
“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”
Andrew Carnegie
Business
,
Success
,
Hard Work
,
Strategy
,
Determination
12.
“Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.”
Andrew Carnegie
Business
,
Finance
,
Success
,
Strategy
,
Management
13.
“Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.”
Andrew Carnegie
Leadership
,
Strategy
,
Success
,
Wisdom
,
Humility
14.
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.”
Andrew Carnegie
Success
,
Leadership
,
Delegation
,
Strategy
,
Business
15.
“Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.”
Andrew Carnegie
Decision-Making
,
Leadership
,
Purpose
,
Success
,
Strategy
16.
“Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.”
Andrew Carnegie
Business
,
Leadership
,
Strategy
,
Growth
,
Independence
17.
“There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.”
Guy Kawasaki
Social Media
,
Influence
,
Followers
,
Reality
,
Strategy
18.
“What’s more important than making a startup attractive to investors in a beauty-contest format is to make them viable in real life.”
Guy Kawasaki
Startup
,
Investment
,
Business
,
Strategy
,
Execution
19.
“If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.”
Guy Kawasaki
Marketing
,
Strategy
,
Intelligence
,
Business
,
Investment
20.
“You say: “I’m a blue sky thinker.” Investor thinks: “You have no business model, and you don’t know how to ship.””
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Investment
,
Strategy
,
Execution
,
Perception
21.
“If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.”
Guy Kawasaki
Social Media
,
Engagement
,
Communication
,
Networking
,
Strategy
22.
“There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach.”
Guy Kawasaki
Career
,
Jobs
,
Success
,
Strategy
,
Applications
23.
“The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.”
Guy Kawasaki
Startups
,
Funding
,
Business
,
Strategy
,
Independence
24.
“A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad.”
Guy Kawasaki
Brand
,
Reputation
,
Business
,
Management
,
Strategy
25.
“Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can’t show you how to make a leap.”
Guy Kawasaki
Customers
,
Innovation
,
Business
,
Feedback
,
Strategy
26.
“The purpose of a pitch is to stimulate interest, not to close a deal.”
Guy Kawasaki
Pitch
,
Business
,
Interest
,
Communication
,
Strategy
27.
“Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Globalization
,
Innovation
,
Strategy
,
Culture
28.
“Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn’t take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.”
Guy Kawasaki
Hiring
,
Leadership
,
Talent
,
Strategy
,
Business
29.
“Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Strategy
,
Communication
,
Clarity
,
Purpose
30.
“The secret of evangelism is Guy’s golden touch – whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.”
Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism
,
Influence
,
Success
,
Strategy
,
Perception
31.
“How about first ensuring that people within a twenty-mile radius like the food before worrying about scaling the restaurant?”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Customers
,
Strategy
,
Local
,
Growth
32.
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
Ideas
,
Execution
,
Effort
,
Innovation
,
Strategy
33.
“Leverage your brand. You shouldn’t let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.”
Guy Kawasaki
Branding
,
Business
,
Competition
,
Entrepreneurship
,
Strategy
34.
“You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.”
Guy Kawasaki
Competition
,
Business
,
Strategy
,
Entrepreneurship
,
Market
35.
“His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That’s right: failed, cratered, imploded, or “went aloha oe,” as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring.”
Guy Kawasaki
Failure
,
Strategy
,
Problem-solving
,
Planning
,
Teamwork
36.
“If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Clarity
,
Simplicity
,
Strategy
,
Communication
37.
“The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this “feeding the Content Monster.” There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation.”
Guy Kawasaki
Social Media
,
Content
,
Marketing
,
Strategy
,
Challenge
38.
“You know in a startup, you only need three people. You need someone who can make something. You need someone who can sell it. And you need someone to collect the money. That’s the only three roles in a startup. So which one are you?”
Guy Kawasaki
Startup
,
Business
,
Roles
,
Entrepreneurship
,
Strategy
39.
“If you can’t describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don’t have a business model.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Clarity
,
Simplicity
,
Strategy
,
Entrepreneurship
40.
“If you’re in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.”
Guy Kawasaki
Opportunity
,
Strategy
,
Presence
,
Success
,
Luck
41.
“My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I’m trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.”
Guy Kawasaki
Writing
,
Strategy
,
Business
,
Execution
,
Guidance
42.
“As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.”
Guy Kawasaki
Marketing
,
Communication
,
Influence
,
Journalism
,
Strategy
43.
“At the end of the day in business, it’s not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Sales
,
Success
,
Execution
,
Strategy
44.
“How long should our business plan be? Answer you’re looking for: You shouldn’t write a business plan. You should get customers.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
,
Strategy
,
Execution
,
Entrepreneurship
,
Action
45.
“The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.”
Guy Kawasaki
Presentations
,
Public Speaking
,
Communication
,
Business
,
Strategy
46.
“Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.”
Guy Kawasaki
Efficiency
,
Productivity
,
Strategy
,
Impact
,
Business
47.
“In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule... use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.”
Guy Kawasaki
Presentations
,
Communication
,
Business
,
Strategy
,
Public Speaking
48.
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
Charles Lamb
Games
,
Strategy
,
Competition
,
Deception
,
Conflict
49.
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Charles Lamb
Competition
,
Nature
,
Ambition
,
Strategy
,
Psychology
50.
“Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?”
Steven Wright
Chess
,
Pawn
,
Wordplay
,
Strategy
,
Humor
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