Strategy Success Quotes

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity. ~ Paul Arden

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea. ~ David Brier

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding. ~ David Brier

Strategy is about shaping the future. ~ Max McKeown

Customers have a first moment when they discover your brand. If you were to look at it today with a fresh pair of eyes, in fact only through a pair of fresh customer eyes and witness your brand for the very first time, what would you see? What impression would make? Or fail to make? Would your brand blend in? Would it stand out? Would it be memorable, or the leading cause of amnesia amongst shoppers everywhere? Facing the truth of this and fixing it as needed will determine whether your brand thrives or merely stumbles along. ~ David Brier

So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp. ~ David Brier

You can either learn to live with your Kryptonite or you can conquer it. Do what others don't and you will have a distinct strategic advantage. ~ James Woosley

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy. ~ Robert Dallek

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death? ~ David Brier

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate. ~ Amah Lambert

History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding). ~ David Brier

Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing. ~ David Brier

A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion. ~ David Brier

Branding is the art of differentiation ~ David Brier

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo. ~ David Brier

Think crazily, even if others laugh at you. Act bravely, even if you are all alone. ~ Dilip Bathija

If you employed a strategy that is not conducive to the results you are looking for, then you will not achieve the desired result. You have to understand that it's not you that failed; it's just that you employed the wrong strategy. ~ Julian Pencilliah

Life is made up of dots ~ David Brier

Why is it there's no aisle in a grocery or department in a store or menu on a website for "average stuff" or "beige products"? FACT: People never got passionate about mediocre and average. While consumers and clients can find "best deals" and "natural foods" and "artisan goods," one doesn't find an aisle or a website menu tab offering "average stuff" without excelling in something (which might explain that while vanilla is necessary for the ice cream sundae, it's the hot fudge we all crave and talk about). ~ David Brier

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. ~ Max McKeown

Success is a strategy. Success is planned and also implemented, its never by accident, it's certainly not by chance either (so keep working it! ) ~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace. ~ David Brier

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead. ~ Tahir Shah

There are no keys to success - only tools. ~ Criss Jami

Brands are either built on reruns or coming attractions. The future has no road map while the past does. Creating a brand that blazes new trails can sometimes be bumpy but will also allow you to be the first to discover something new, something meaningful and something that makes others ask, "Why didn't we think of that?" Be very scared of "old tricks" and build a spirit of innovation. It's the "old tricks" that have the highest risk, not doing something bold. ~ David Brier

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. ~ Sun Tzu

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work. ~ Max McKeown

And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand. ~ David Brier

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project. ~ Brandon Stanton

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets. ~ Sophie B. Hawkins

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event. ~ Richard Attias

A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance. ~ Farshad Asl

The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. ~ Faraaz Kazi

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success. ~ Henry Highland Garnet

No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity. ~ Lilian Whiting

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book ... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters ... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp. ~ Ethan Gilsdorf

Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances. ~ F. F. Bosworth

If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well. ~ Frederick Lenz

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment. ~ John C. Maxwell

Keep trying! You will succeed at the sacred time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Life has a sense of humour; it hides its best treasures in unexpected places. ~ Mensah Oteh

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public. ~ James Cash Penney

Am I willing to give up my lofty ideas of success - even the "success" of serving God in great and visible ways - and instead content myself to serve in the mundane, to be largely invisible, and to meet the needs of those who can't return the favor? ~ Anonymous

Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step. ~ Ben Bernanke

Your success is hidden underneath your fears and weakness ~ Thabiso Monkoe

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead. ~ Steve Martin

Forget about style; worry about results. ~ Bobby Orr

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success ~ Agona Apell

When climbing the ladder of success, haters, not gravity, try to pull you down. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

From the time one gets married he tries to improve his wife, but neither of the two improves till death. Instead, if you would have tried to cut vegetables, it would have been done (with success.) So do not try to improve the wife. She may try to improve us [men] but we should not try to reform them. ~ Dada Bhagwan

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. ~ Bernard Emond

It sounds like a lot when you summarize it, but I don't do all of it every day. If you want to know the truth, most days I feel like I'm miserably behind and only doing about half of what I should be doing. But when you look back you can see that you're building something. I think people who say 'Don't look back' are crazy. I wouldn't survive if I weren't looking back and patting myself on the back all the time for making it this far. ~ Charity Shumway

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. ~ Elbert Hubbard

It is a good success to take people from the city to the forests; but there is a much greater success: To bring the forest to the people, to the cities! To bring heaven to the hell! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success. ~ Bonnie Hunt

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre. ~ David Guetta

The snail, presumably, to bolster the self-esteem of the turtles: "You think we're slow? Look at that guy." To shore up the snail's morale in the same way, there was a rock. Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions. ~ Christopher Moore

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise. ~ Dennis Bakke

Should God give you worlds, and laws, and treasures, and worlds upon worlds, and Himself also in the Divinest manner, if you will be lazy and not meditate, you lose all. The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain. ~ Thomas Traherne

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. ~ W. Clement Stone

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love. ~ Steve Maraboli

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ~ Vicki Baum