Common Quotes

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Life is a kind of chess.

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

I think we have to focus,on exactly what the priorities are.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

We must use time creatively.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Fotball strategy does not originate in a scrimmage. It is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

It’s quite difficult to find the time for strategic thought.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

The most important thing is that you can make tough decisions, discipline people when you need to, but also create a spirit to get the ultimate thing you're aiming for, which is winning enough games.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.