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| text = Vision without execution is hallucination.<ref>{{cite web |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 = Without strategy, execution is aimless. Without execution, strategy is useless.<ref>{{cite news |title=Without Strategy, Execution Is Aimless |url=https://www.utahbusiness.com/industry/2025/08/05/nonprofits-passion-strategy-maximize-impact/ |publisher=Utah Business |date=2025-08-05 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.<ref>{{cite web |title=Misquotes and Memes: Did Ben Franklin REALLY Say That? |url=https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2015/misquotes-and-memes-did-ben-franklin-really-say |website=Baylor University Media |date=2015-07-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quotes Falsely Attributed to Winston Churchill |url=https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/ |website=International Churchill Society |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.<ref>{{cite book |last=Drucker |first=Peter F. |title=The Effective Executive |publisher=Harper & Row |date=1967}}</ref>

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| text = Culture eats strategy for breakfast.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quote Origin: Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast |url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/05/23/culture-eats/ |website=Quote Investigator |date=2017-05-23 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = If we win the hearts and minds of employees, we’re going to have better business success.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Quotable Mary Barra |url=https://chiefexecutive.net/the-quotable-mary-barra/ |publisher=Chief Executive |date=2014-01-22 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tichy |first1=Noel |last2=Charan |first2=Ram |title=Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch |url=https://hbr.org/1996/09/speed-simplicity-and-self-confidence-an-interview-with-jack-welch |magazine=Harvard Business Review |date=1989-09-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hoffman |first1=Reid |last2=Casnocha |first2=Ben |title=The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career |publisher=Crown Business |year=2012}}</ref>

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| text = Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bennis |first=Warren |title=On Becoming a Leader |publisher=Addison-Wesley |year=1989}}</ref>

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| text = Do every job you’re in like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Quotable Mary Barra |url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/quotable-mary-barra |publisher=Stanford Graduate School of Business |date=2015-05-18 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.<ref>{{cite news |title=Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine |url=https://www.magnoliapictures.com/stevejobsthemaninthemachine |publisher=Magnolia Pictures |date=2015-09-04 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.<ref>{{cite book |last=McKeown |first=Max |title=The Strategy Book |publisher=Pearson |year=2012}}</ref>

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| text = The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.<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 satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.<ref>{{cite book |last=LeBoeuf |first=Michael |title=How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life |publisher=Putnam |year=1987}}</ref>

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| text = Ideally, we want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows to loving Windows.<ref>{{cite news |author=Paresh Dave |title=Microsoft hopes computer users show some love for Windows 10 |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-windows-10-main-20150727-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2015-07-26 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.<ref>{{cite book |last=Berra |first=Yogi |title=The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said! |publisher=Workman Publishing |date=1998}}</ref>

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| text = It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.<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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| text = The biggest risk is not taking any risk... the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.<ref>{{cite web |last=Zuckerberg |first=Mark |title=Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2011 |url=https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5x-mark-zuckerberg-at-startup-school-2011 |publisher=Y Combinator |date=2011-10-22 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ries |first=Eric |title=The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses |publisher=Crown Business |year=2011}}</ref>

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| text = You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles de Gaulle Quotes – Fast and Adaptive |url=https://quotefancy.com/quote/945620/Charles-de-Gaulle-You-have-to-be-fast-on-your-feet-and-adaptive-or-else-a-strategy-is |website=QuoteFancy |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = You must always be able to predict what’s next and then have the flexibility to evolve.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marc Benioff Quotes |url=https://www.salesforce.com/ceo/ |publisher=Salesforce |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ries |first=Eric |title=The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses |publisher=Crown Business |year=2011}}</ref>

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| text = We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jeff Bezos on Innovation: Stubborn on Vision, Flexible on Details |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation/ |publisher=GeekWire |date=2011-06-17 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = You build your own strategy. You don’t define it by what another competitor is doing.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ginni Rometty: You Build Your Own Strategy |url=https://consultinnotek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/June24-Digital-Newsletter.pdf |publisher=Consultinnotek |date=2024-06-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO |url=https://news.microsoft.com/2014/02/04/satya-nadella-email-to-employees-on-first-day-as-ceo/ |website=Microsoft News |date=2014-02-04 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.<ref>{{cite web |title=John D. Rockefeller – Quotes |url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller |website=Wikiquote |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction<ref>{{cite book |last=Ohmae |first=Kenichi |title=The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business |publisher=McGraw-Hill |year=1982}}</ref>

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| text = In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.<ref>{{cite book |last=Musashi |first=Miyamoto |title=The Book of Five Rings |translator=Victor Harris |publisher=Overlook Press |year=1974}}</ref>

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| text = The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.<ref>{{cite web |last=Godin |first=Seth |title=The Best Marketing Strategy |url=https://seths.blog/ |publisher=Seth's Blog |date=2008-01-01 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = My definition of ‘innovative’ is providing value to the customer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Top 10 Influential Business Leaders That Are Changing The World |url=https://www.industryleadersmagazine.com/top-10-influential-business-leaders-that-are-changing-the-world/ |publisher=Industry Leaders Magazine |date=2021-03-15 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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| text = The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.<ref>{{cite news |author=Barbara Lorsbach |title=Avoiding Groupthink in the Boardroom |url=https://trustees.aha.org/avoiding-groupthink-boardroom |work=AHA Trustee Insights |date=2023 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>

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