Strategy Quotes - Page 24

• Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

  Al Ries

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Mud

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2006). “Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.

  Ken Salazar

  Real, Oil, Vision

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• Every move creates a weakness.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Weakness, Chess

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• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  Vince Cable

  Believe, Government, Roles

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• Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

  Christopher Bond

  Reform, Amtrak, Administration

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• The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Art, Reform, Process

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Next, Firsts, Chess

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• Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Art, Winning, Thinking

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Variation

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• We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

  Nick Denton

  Believe, Web Content, Opinion

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• As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  Ursula Burns

  Powerful, Practice, Careers

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

  Seth Godin

  Used

  "Strategy matters more than ever". sethgodin.typepad.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

  David Whyte

  Imagination, Identity, Tests

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• Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

  Tim Brown

  Thinking, Way, Designer

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Building Up

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• Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Work, Special, Purpose

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• Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Effort, Vision

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2012

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• Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was  expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

  Edwin Lefevre

  New York, Mistake, Successful

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

  Anatole France

  Climbing, Bridges, Rivers

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• I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

  Ginni Rometty

  Years, Priorities, Together

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• Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Stalking, Underrated

  Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.41, Penguin

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• Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Team, Commitment, Impact

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• Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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