Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

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.

All strategy depends on competition.

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves? Even when you get to be a chess master, there are other chess masters you want to beat or outperform. And to me business is just a sport that I love to compete in; a continuous intellectual challenge that really motivates me.

Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

Always, Always have a plan

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

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

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

I wanted the best for my company, I had to do what I did to succeed. Everyone was lowering their prices to beat there competition so I did the same I eventually beat my competition.

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

Every battle is won before it is fought.

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

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

When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.