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Strategy Quotes
"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements."
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"A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook."
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"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"
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"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."
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"There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year."
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"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."
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"Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms."
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"The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis."
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"The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well."
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"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."
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"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique."
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"There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness."
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"The company without a strategy is willing to try anything."
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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."
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"So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years."
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"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."
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"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."
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"That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole."
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"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
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"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."
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"So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving."
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"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
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"The key to triumph is the art of choosing your battles " staying focused on your vision and avoiding distraction."
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"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."
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"Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose."I nodded. "I can do that.""No," said Dimitri. "You can't.""Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me."Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans."There was an uncomfortable silence in the car."No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!"
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"Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition."
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"Every battle is won before it is fought."
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"If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attachedto you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless."
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"If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century."
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