Tony Ferguson Quotes

I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

The best strategy is always to be very strong.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

As a player you need to make whatever decision you think is best for your career.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.