strategy Quotes

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

Change the boundaries of business.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.