“Your biggest risk isn’t occasional failure, it’s sustained mediocrity.”
Luke Wroblewski
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
Babe Ruth
“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
Unknown
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
Norman Schwarzkopf
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
Sun Tzu
“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”
Sun Tzu
“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’”
Jef I. Richards
“Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.”
David Ogily
“Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes it’s an ad”
Howard Gossage
“In advertising not to be different is virtually suicide”
Bill Bernbach
“The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. It’s ‘product’ cannot be turned out by an assembly line”
Leo Burnett
“Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency, she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse”
Jacques Seguela
“You can’s stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”
Joseph Goldstein
“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those are my principles and if you don’t like them… well, I have others”
Groucho Marx
“Do, or do not. There is no try”
Yoda
“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work”
Chuck Close
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
Albert Einstein
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”
Dr. Seuss
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
Shunryu Suzuki
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
Vincent van Gogh
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe”
Anonymous
En nog een paar van William Arthur Ward:
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them”
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves”
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires”
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it”
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records”
“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity”
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it”
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses”
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys”
“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority”
En een paar van mijn grote held Albert Einstein:
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid”
“Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will get you everywhere”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
En random gevonden:
“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.” Lee Bolman
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter
“You cannot be everything to everyone. If you decide to go north, you cannot go south at the same time.” Jeroen De Flander
“Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.” Robert Filek
“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” Michael Porter
“Hope is not a strategy.” Vince Lombardi
“In reality strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.” Jack Welch
“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.” Michael Porter
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu
“Failure is nothing more than a chance to revise your strategy.” Anonymous
“Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action.” Ellie Pidot
“Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to succeed, but more importantly, what’s your plan to succeed?” Jim Rohn
“There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” William Hague
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Sir Winston Churchill
“Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless.” Morris Chang
“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.” Peter Drucker
“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.” Michael LeBoeuf
“Strategy is style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.” Pete Johnson
“Always start at the end before you begin.” Robert Kiyosaki
“Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.” Larry Bossidy
“A strategy is necessary because the future is unpredictable.” Robert Waterman
“Be real and adjust your strategy according to honest results.” Charles Caleb Colton
“When your headlights aren’t on, the best rearview mirror available isn’t likely to improve your driving.” Marth Rogers
“The best content in the world won’t drive revenue if nobody sees it.” Anonymous
“Make generosity part of your growth strategy.” Anonymous
“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.” Charles de Gaulle
“I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.” Jack Canfield
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. in a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Mark Zuckerberg
“Perfect moves hold you back from moves at all.” Anonymous
“There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.” Philip Kotler
“Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.” Seth Godin
“The best marketing strategy ever: Care.” Gary Vaynerchuck
“Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.” Michael Porter
“Creating value for humanity should not be an afterthought but a core business strategy.” Anonymous
“A vision and strategy aren’t enough. The long-term key to success is execution. each day. Every day.” Richard M. Kovacevich