1,050 Quotes About Strategy

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

What Foundling does isn’t thinking outside the box so much as stealing the box and hitting her opponents with it until they stop moving.”– Extract from “A Commentary on the Uncivil Wars”, by Juniper of the Red Moon Clan

If: You are 100x better at marketing than accounting...Then: Focus on marketing, and hire someone else to do your accounting.What do you need to stop doing yourself, and outsource to someone else?

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

The motion does not produce results, an action does.

Be strategic about productivity. Do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average way.

- А стратегията е лъскава дума за специален вид разум, способността да виждаш вариантите и да ги създадеш, когато няма такива. Не е свързано с познаването на правилата.Тя отпусна ръка ръка, бутилката се разпадна отново и се разсипа в дъжд от стъкло.- Важното е да знаеш как да ги нарушаваш.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The first rule of any game was to assume you could win, even if you had to hunt through the universe’s cracks for a strategy, even if you had to turn the pieces inside-out, even if you had to tell so many lies to the opponent that they couldn’t figure out which way was up.