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| text = The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.<ref>{{cite news |last=Porter |first=Michael E. |title=What Is Strategy? |url=https://hbr.org/1996/11/what-is-strategy |magazine=Harvard Business Review |date=1996-11-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = You cannot be everything to everyone. If you decide to go north, you cannot go south at the same time.<ref>{{cite book |last=De Flander |first=Jeroen |title=Strategy Execution Heroes: Business Strategy Implementation and Strategic Management Demystified |publisher=The Performance Factory |year=2010}}</ref>
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| text = Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mintzberg |first=Henry |title=The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning |publisher=The Free Press |year=1994}}</ref>
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| text = Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.<ref>{{cite news |author=Michael E. Porter |title=What Is Strategy? |url=https://hbr.org/1996/11/what-is-strategy |work=Harvard Business Review |date=1996-11-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = Create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=W. Chan |last2=Mauborgne |first2=Renée |title=Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant |publisher=Harvard Business School Press |date=2005}}</ref>
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| text = Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.<ref>{{cite book |last=McKeown |first=Max |title=The Strategy Book: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results |publisher=Pearson |date=2013}}</ref>
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| text = Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jean-Louis Schaan |title=A strategic way to enter the new era of strategy |url=https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/news/news-ivey/2015/5/a-strategic-way-to-enter-the-new-era-of-strategy/ |work=Ivey Business School News |date=2015-05-15 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=W. Chan |last2=Mauborgne |first2=Renée |title=Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant |publisher=Harvard Business School Press |date=2005 |page=22}}</ref>
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| text = The best way to predict the future is to create it.<ref>{{cite book |last=Drucker |first=Peter F. |title=Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices |publisher=Harper & Row |date=1973}}</ref>
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| text = Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Porter – Five Forces Analysis |url=https://strategiesforinfluence.com/michael-porter-coaching-tips/ |website=Strategies for Influence |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = Every company wants one, yet only a few companies have one: a compelling strategy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=W. Chan |last2=Mauborgne |first2=Renée |title=Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant |publisher=Harvard Business School Press |date=2005}}</ref>
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| text = The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.<ref>{{cite web |title=Michael Porter – Five Forces Analysis |url=https://strategiesforinfluence.com/michael-porter-coaching-tips/ |website=Strategies for Influence |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.<ref>{{cite book |last=McKeown |first=Max |title=The Strategy Book: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results |publisher=Pearson |date=2013}}</ref>
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| text = Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bossidy |first1=Larry |last2=Charan |first2=Ram |title=Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done |publisher=Crown Business |year=2002}}</ref>
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| text = Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Drucker – Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast |url=https://strategiesforinfluence.com/peter-drucker-coaching-tips/ |website=Strategies for Influence |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.<ref>{{cite news |title=False dichotomies and the noise before defeat |url=https://strategiccoffee.chriscfox.com/2017/03/the-noise-before-defeat.html |website=StrategicCoffee |date=2017-03-10 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = Plans are nothing; planning is everything.<ref>{{cite web |last=Eisenhower |first=Dwight D. |title=Remarks to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-national-defense-executive-reserve-conference |publisher=The American Presidency Project |date=1957-11-14 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.<ref>{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Chuck |title=The Result of Bad Communication |url=https://www.medium.com/illumination/management-fix-99880c69c9d9 |publisher=Medium |date=2020-05-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.<ref>{{cite book |last=Patton |first=George S. |title=War As I Knew It |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |date=1947}}</ref>
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| text = Good business planning is 9 parts execution for every 1 part strategy.<ref>{{cite web |last=Berry |first=Tim |title=Good Business Planning Is 9 Parts Execution |url=https://articles.bplans.com/ |publisher=Bplans |date=2008-01-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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| text = Hope is not a strategy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Who Said “Hope Is Not a Strategy”? |url=https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/hope-not-strategy |website=YourDictionary |date=2020-11-06 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
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