Strategic Quotes - Page 8

• A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

  Alexander Haig

  Mutual Benefit, Long, Important

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• A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

  Herman Kahn

  Technology, Important, Nuclear

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

  Paul Keating

  Taken, Mean, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hurt, Skills, Ideas

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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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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• Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Mistake, Moon, Google

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  Chuck Hagel

  Alliances, Agility, Problem

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• The number one thing I urge people to remember is it is all about being scientific about managing strategic uncertainty, while striking the important balance between being thorough and being flexible.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Numbers, People, Balance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

  Bob Iger

  Successful, Technology, Creating

  "Walt Disney Extends Robert Iger's Contract Through June 2016" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2011.

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• The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

  Hamid Karzai

  People, Support, Majority

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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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• We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.

  Che Guevara

  Freedom, Struggle, Responsibility

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

  Nahum Goldmann

  Power, Uganda, Europe

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• Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Democracy, Taiwan, East

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• Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

  Benjamin Walker

  Careers, Ideas, Decision

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• To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

  Harriet Rubin

  Mean, Leader, Risk

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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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• I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

  Viktor Yanukovych

  Russia, People, Firsts

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• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

  Peter Senge

  Years, People, Majority

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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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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• Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium.

  Robert Aumann

  Games, Perfect, Requirements

  "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.

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