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

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

  Ben Bernanke

  Moving, Turkeys, Want

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• What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

  Gary North

  Dominion, Ten Commandments, Ten

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• Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business sense.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Morning, Intelligent, Greatness

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• You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

  Patrick Dixon

  World, Care, Ifs

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hard Work, Needs, Vote

  "Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney’s ‘Latino Problem", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

  George Friedman

  Reality, Tactics, Might

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• Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them.

  Valerius Geist

  Mother, Fall, Winter

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• Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Writing, Candor

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• Bold objects require conservative engineering.

  James E. Webb

  Engineering, Conservative, Objects

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• If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ems, Beats, Ifs

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• To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Conquer

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• Speed has become an important element of strategy.

  Regis McKenna

  Important, Elements, Speed

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• The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

  Peter Ellyard

  Future, Design, Challenges

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• Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

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• Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Pay, Results

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• You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

  William J. Clinton

  Brain, Opponents, Losing

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• Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Children, Careers, Goal

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• Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

  Max McKeown

  People, Helping, Corporate

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.37, Pearson UK

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• A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.

  Nancy Birdsall

  Country, Book, Intelligent

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• Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Treasure, Way

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Order, Europe, Leader

  Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  David Von Drehle

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

  Eleanor Clift

  Fall, Iraq, President

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