Strategic Guidance Quotes

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

Have you already in your mind a plan wholly or partially formed? If you have, prosecute it without interference from me. If you have not, please inform me, so that I, incompetent as I may be, can try and assist you in the formation of some plan for the army.

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

I think you have to play the game on every level. If you need a friendly, charismatic, good-looking guy to be the mouthpiece, then so be it. And maybe Ralph Nader should just be behind the scenes telling that guy what to say.

If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive." SMASH! "Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.

Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.

Great VCs are more than mere investors; they are often seasoned leaders who have built companies themselves.

The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company - to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place.

In addition to Richard Branson joining the board, we have attracted and commanded the greatest minds to guide us as we position ourselves for global growth. Their proven leadership in their respective industries adds another dimension in helping us achieve our dream of bringing Virgin Hyperloop One technology to the world.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

Every organization is looking for... a guy who can be the coach for the next 10, 15 years. That's what they want. I get that.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.