Business Strategy Quotes

"If you are a product-oriented company, you should focus on building great products rather than on how to sell them." "What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it" "An idea meritocracy is the best decision-making system" "Shorting is not a great business, its a great hobby." "Listening to the customers must become everyone's business." "Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value." "Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different." "The root of the problem is internal; the problem is the way management selects and implements strategy. Excellence in execution requires a dedicated and focused effort." "Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people" "The worst error in strategy is to compete with rivals on the same dimensions" "The most important thing in strategy is to make sure that you have a really clear strategic positioning" "Customer service shouldn't just be a department it should be the entire company" "Monopoly is the condition of every successful business." "People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole." "No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair"