Mintzberg Strategy Quotes & Sayings

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have. — Henry Mintzberg

Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety. — Benjamin Graham

When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time. — Joanna Penn

It's funny, I wonder why we like being praised. There's no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? ... Aren't humans absurd? I suppose we like praise for its own sake. The way children like ice cream. It's an inferiority complex, that's what it is. Praise assuages our insecurities. And ridiculously so. — Arkady Strugatsky

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions — Henry Mintzberg

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. — Henry Mintzberg

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere. — Akkineni Nagarjuna

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations ... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving. — Henry Mintzberg

I want you, Zel. The thought of you leaving fucking kills me. — Pepper Winters

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. — Henry Mintzberg

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. — Patrick Henry

Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone. — Jeffrey Fry

By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war. — Vladislav Tamarov

A fire hydrant is not something you want to lose, especially in an emergency. — Shannon Wiersbitzky

There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing. — George Deukmejian

You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
Yes, we did many things, then - all
Beautiful ... — Sappho

If there's something good, then I'm going to want to work. If there's something that I feel like I'd be compromising myself on, then I'd pass. — Shane West

The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation. — Henry Mintzberg

When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture. — Jonathan Falwell