Strategic Quotes - Page 9

• The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

  Sugata Bose

  Military, Reality, Stronger

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• Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

  Allen Weinstein

  Reality, Goal, Records

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• Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Intuition, Firsts, Reasoning

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.70, Vintage

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• All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

  Carol Leifer

  Men, Decision, Stuff

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• The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Reality, Secret, Tiny

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• Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, People, Together

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in a vacuum. To address that reality, Catalyst Conference 2006 will delve into strategic infrastructure technologies with the depth to which our clients have grown accustomed. With the larger number of Cross-Cutting Concerns sessions, we'll also clearly illustrate how these technologies relate to each other, and how roles, geographies, and business processes intersect within an enterprise.

  Jamie Lewis

  Cutting, Technology, Reality

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• We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice

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• The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of strategic advantage, is you always have to be investing in the future.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Keys, Investing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Successful, Race

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Strong, Skills

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• What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Believe, Nuclear, Gone

  "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

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• Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Fate, Organization, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• Dan Pfeiffer for me probably the most concerning at all because he is the [President Barack Obama] strategic communications adviser. What's the strategy ?

  Eric Bolling

  Communication, President, Strategy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Let's allow Poland and the Czech Republic to have that missile shield that they were entitled to by joining NATO. I think that's the right strategic response to Russian aggression.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Czech Republic, Joining

  "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

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• During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk.

  Dave Barry

  War, Years, Sea

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• Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

  Carol Roth

  People, Ends, Process

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• Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Isis, Views, Issues

  "Zbigniew Brzezinski On Trump's Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. March 17, 2017.

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• In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

  Ashton Carter

  Consistency, Important, Clarity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Loyalty, Country, Names

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Lakes, Cities, Two

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic direction of Cuba in the next years. To reach prosperous and sustainable socialism, which is our aspiration, we discussed that with the entire population.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Years, People, Population

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy to be given authorization to go back into Iran instead of leaving all that to their rivals. But the state won't allow it. And it is setting up confrontations right now, very explicitly. Part of the reason is strategic, geo-political, economic, but part of the reason is the mafia complex. They have to be punished for disobeying us.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iran, America, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It therefore seems to me that there is one and only one valid argument on which a case for giving up strategic bombing could be based, namely that it has already completed its task and that nothing now remains for the Armies to do except to occupy Germany against unorganized resistance.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  Giving Up, Army, Cities

  Letter to Sir Norman Bottomley on March 29, 1945. "Bomber Harris: The Story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris". Book by Dudley Saward, p. 294, 1985.

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