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Strategy Quotes
"Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. "No. Find another plan."There is no other plan. This isn't even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that's certain to fail and end in your deaths."
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"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."
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"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."
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"But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles."
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"Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead."
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"Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future."
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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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"Okay, gang,' I said, 'according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but-''I thought we'd just go through the doors,' Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs.The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz.'Do I even want to know where you got those?' I asked.Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, 'No."
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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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"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."
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"The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy."
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"The organization likes to do their dirty business where no one can see it."
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"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."
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"I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety."
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"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."
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"Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there."
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"Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed."
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"Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing."
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"If you can't win by reason, go for volume."
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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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"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess."
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"What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion."
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"If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat."
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"Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then rock Judith had thrown--but then again, when his team had used rocks on Alexander, it had caused him to surrender. Now the Bad Guys only had three soldiers left, which would make victory for Max's team more likely. So now it made perfect sense. He was wrong to ban rocks, or even animals. The key was to use all the weapons at one's disposal, but to just make sure you won when you used them."
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"Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
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"Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival."
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"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."
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"If his forces are united, separate them."
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"If you're explaining, you're losing."
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"It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments."
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"Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war."
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"Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."
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"To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike."
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"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
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"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain."
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"The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses."
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"Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school."
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"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
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