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Strategy Quotes


"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"


"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements."


"A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook."


"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."


"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."


"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages , they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."


"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique."


"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."


"The company without a strategy is willing to try anything."


"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."


"What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged."


"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."


"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."


"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."


"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."


"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."


"Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players."


"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing."


"Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow."


"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."


"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."


"It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars."


"Life challenges are unavoidable. We only need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."



"By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up "what and "how, we may have a hard time staying on point. What we want, on the one hand, and "how we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. ['When the bar is set too high']"


"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."


"The key to triumph is the art of choosing your battles " staying focused on your vision and avoiding distraction."


"Be ready for every moment, you don't know which check is the checkmate."


"The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry."


"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."


"You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future."
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