Strategy Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

  Lena Olin

  Roles, Way, Difficult

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• The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

  Jerry Brown

  Population, Breaking Down, Crime

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.

  Chris Howard

  Clouds, Issues, Foundation

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• I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

  Craig Newmark

  Exit, Craigslist, Committed

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• It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  Bill Ackman

  Assessment, Needs, Errands

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• A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Reality, Building, Plans

  FaceBook post by Martin Lindstrom from Aug 29, 2016

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• Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, People, Important

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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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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• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Florida, Littles, Way

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• It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, Iraq, Victory

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• The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

  Michael Klare

  Keys, Usa, Iraq

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• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

  Nelson Mandela

  Boxing, Body, Violence

  "Remembering Mandela, the Boxer" by Keegan Hamilton, grantland.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Perspective, Judgement, Intuition

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

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• Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Egypt, America, Challenges

  "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2014.

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• Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

  Glen Duncan

  Sticks, Spontaneous, Negotiation

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Honesty, Cities, Policy

  "The Mad Man". Book by Samuel R. Delany, 1994.

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• Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.

  Cory Doctorow

  Technology, Trying, Stuff

  "Why I Won't Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn't, Either)". boingboing.net. April 02, 2010.

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• Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.

  George Bodenheimer

  Children, Powerful, Team

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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

  Stanley Fish

  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

  Pete Hegseth

  Approach

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Usa, Als

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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