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  Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Peace, War

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

  Chanakya

  Education, Stupid, Book

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• Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Water, Warfare

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.117, Tuttle Publishing

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• For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Psychology, Understanding

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• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Cutting, People

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• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Men, Deeds

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• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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• The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

  Chanakya

  Education, Secret, Guru

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• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

  Chanakya

  Friendship, Education, Self

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• Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the White House as his senior strategist.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Senior, White, House

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm sick of the pussies on the right, if I can use that word, they're pathetic. The poll-tested, Republican strategist driven candidate whose job is to try and not get into a battle with the mainstream media and be liked by Katie Couric is a threat to America. It's a clear and present danger to a country that's in steep peril.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Jobs, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Player, Russia, Middle East

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Taken, Tired

  "Angry Politics: 'Voters Gone Wild' in 2006" by Larry Sabato and David Wasserman, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 17, 2006.

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• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

  Chanakya

  God, Idols, Soul

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• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

  Chanakya

  Education, Flower, Wind

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• When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.

  Chuck D

  People, Aristocracy, Different

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Winning, Waiting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Fighting, Thinking

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• General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

  Jim Talent

  Circles, People, Decision

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• The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

  Max McKeown

  Smart, Organization, Differences

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• Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.

  Sun Tzu

  Winning, Challenges, Triumph

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• If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Art Of War, Warrior

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Opponents, Dear

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.32, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

  Peter Drucker

  Character, Tree, Should

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• A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Two, Creative, Leader

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