Strategy Failure Quotes

I'm no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years now, and I think it's time to turn a page and accept reality. Our strategy - if that is the right word - failed miserably, and Russia's with Iran has been successful.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

I was just getting away from my game plan. What I was doing really, I wasn't using it to my advantage in '18. And that was it.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Whatever you shoot is dead for a while before it starts to stink. The same goes for strategies. How many organizations carry this dead thing around with them, unaware of its irrelevancy until it is too late?

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Most important, you can have a war room, you can have a war plan, but if your general - in this case, it's Donald Trump - isn't following the plan and is tweeting or is going and giving interviews that contradict the plan, then none of this really matters.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

When you concede in less than two minutes, it changes completely everything.

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.