Strategic Quotes - Page 13

• The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Business, Art Of War

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter V · Forces, 2003.

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• Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.

  John C. Malone

  Change, Stupid, Two

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• The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.

  Barbara Jordan

  Technology, Airports, Years

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• Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Fear, Failure, Events

  Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

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• If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Data, Over You, Looks

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• Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technique, Planning, Process

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• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

  David Allen

  Motivation, Impact, Done

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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• I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in the global mobile market by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions.

  Brian Krzanich

  Communication, Commitment, Technology

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• Both companies have product ranges with world-class brands that complement each other perfectly. Our companies share a common culture and mission. By realizing synergies and with our combined financial and strategic strengths, we will be ideally positioned in tomorrow's marketplace.

  Robert J. Eaton

  Class, Culture, World

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• I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Thinking, Bored

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• The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.

  Jamie Dimon

  Investing, Fit, Strategy

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• In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Pieces, Chess, Way

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• The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Decision, Infrastructure

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Military, Goal

  Robert Pape (2005). “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, p.4, Random House

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• Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

  Harold Kerzner

  Maturity, Planning, Management

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• Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Commitment, Thinking, Issues

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• [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

  Paul Bremer

  United States, Politics, Force

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• Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

  Gerard Horan

  Games, People, Dating

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

  John Ashcroft

  Groups, Looks, Way

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  Attributed to Henry Mintzberg in C. W. Cook, P. L. Hunsaker "Management and organizational behavior" (p. 58), 2001.

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• I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

  Hugo Chavez

  Doe, Socialist, Company

  Statement of 21 September 2008, as quoted in "Credit Crisis Fools Latin America's Leaders: Alexandre Marinis" at Bloomberg.com, October 21, 2008.

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• I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

  David E. Hoffman

  Powerful, Thinking, Defense

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.

  Caroline Glick

  War, Israel, Support

  "Live From NY’s 92nd Street Y Continues". Vail Daily Article, www.vaildaily.com. October 07, 2007.

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• When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Struggle, Mind

  "Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate". Book by J. M. Cohen, 1987.

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