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Strategy Quotes
"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"
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"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements."
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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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"A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook."
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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 company without a strategy is willing to try anything."
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"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique."
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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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"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."
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"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."
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"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."
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"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
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"Life challenges are unavoidable. We only need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."
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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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"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']"
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"You don't destroy what you want toacquire in the future."
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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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"Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow."
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"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."
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"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing."
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"No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling."
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"That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be."
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"It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses."
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"Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice."
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"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."
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"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."
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"One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics."
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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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"If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy."
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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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"The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses."
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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
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"Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network."
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