Strategic Quotes - Page 6

• The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Purpose, Gains, Planning

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• This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  War, Mean, Victory

  Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Spiritual, Progress, Our Society

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Mistake, Iraq

  "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.

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• Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida, including precise operations based on good intelligence, changes in their corrections facilities, superb strategic communications programs and a host of other initiatives - all of which, together, have helped Saudi Arabia achieve impressive results in their fight against extremists.

  David Petraeus

  Communication, Fighting, Intelligent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

  Tyga

  Moving, Games, Fans

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Years, Government

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Eight, Years

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• My goal has always been to add value, not to be redundant, not to get in the way, but to do things that lift and move things forward in a very strategic and objective way so that there are real outcomes.

  Michelle Obama

  Real, Moving, Goal

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Climate, Looks, World

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing.

  Robert Greene

  Sports, Drama, Thinking

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iraq, Nazi

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• In fact, Clinton-era publications of the US Space Command describe control over space as a parallel to control over the oceans a century ago. Then, countries built navies to protect and enhance their power in commercial and strategic interests. Today, the militarization of space is intended to protect US investments and commercial interest and US hegemony around the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Ocean, Space

  Source: www.madre.org

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• ...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

  Al Gore

  Years, Goal, Twenties

  "Earth in the Balance". Book by Al Gore, June, 1992.

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• But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

  Lily Collins

  Way, Fame

  "Lily Collins interview: I'm not doing this for fame" by Katie Mulloy, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

  Ron Silver

  Peace, Past, Pay The Price

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• Our nation must engage with the rest of the world. But to be successful, we must listen. Our interaction with the world must be a conversation, not a monologue... these exchanges are a strategic pillar of our nation's public diplomacy.

  Dina Powell

  Successful, Presidential, Pillars

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• Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dedication, Israel, Ties

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Unique, Israel

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• I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

  Michael Hyatt

  Thinking, Challenges, Size

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• Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

  James A Bellanca

  Educational, Teaching, Engagement

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• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Player, Vision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Mistake, Patriotic

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• A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system that no longer tolerates the opposition of activity and passivity, nor that of cause and effect, or of indetermination and determination, etc., such that in designating consciousness as an effect or a determination, one continues - for strategic reasons that can be more or less lucidly deliberated and systematically calculated - to operate according to the lexicon of that which one is de-limiting.

  Jacques Derrida

  Determination, Lexicon, Etc

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