Salma Hayek Quotes

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

Strategists who don’t take time to think are just planners.

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

A finisher doesn't always mean you have to take the game deep and then bash to finish. It is all about understanding situations and then adjusting your game with the aim that you have to get the job done.

I work a little bit of slower, methodical pace. I'm able to implement certain different styles depending on who my opponent is.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.