Corporate Planning Quotes

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.

Competitive strategies is a concept or philosophy that's as American as apple pie.

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

WrestleMania's the accumulation of a lot of things. All the shareholders come in for all the meetings with the suits and everything.

Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level.

The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.