When you're on the road, lots of things are going on, and you're up at 4:30 a.m. trying to write, you get very creative about what you can share in that day's blog post.
At least that's what happened with these strategic thinking quotes for today!
These strategic thinking quotes all came from some of the earliest, pre-Brainzooming strategy sessions we were doing in the Fortune 500 world. Some are serious; some were meant to take friendly jabs at our economist; some (specifically the last one from me) were made up to get a laugh when one was needed in the middle of the afternoon.
“Most people don't take the time to think. I made an international reputation for myself by deciding to think twice a week.” - George Bernard Shaw
“No brain is stronger than its weakest think.” - Thomas L. Masson
“The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.” - W. Alton Jones
“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson
“Our best thoughts come from others.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” - Dr. Seuss
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” - John Steinbeck
“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." - Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.” –Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.” - Thomas Dewar
“I dwell in possibilities.” - Emily Dickinson
"If you have to forecast, forecast often. " - Edgar R. Fiedler
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” - Laurence J. Peter
“For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.”- Mike Brown
"Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour." - Mike Brown (Definitely don't quote me on this one!)