Strategy Quotes - Page 37

• Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

  Richard Grasso

  Opportunity, Calm, Periods

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• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  John W. Thompson

  Integrity, Moving, Data

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ought

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.

  Kurt Schmoke

  War, Thinking, Drug

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• Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Satan, Defeat

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.24, Zondervan

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• This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hopeful, Direct Approach

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• The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Mean

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Should Have

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• The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Levels

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• The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Soldier

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Balance, Usual

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• In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Lying

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• [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Decision, Battle

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• For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Sight, Balance

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• Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother Daughter, Men, Winning

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• Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, People, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 22, 2015

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• What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

  Enver Masud

  Suicide, Believe, Islamic

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• Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Lying, Fire, Practice

  Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Agency, Light, Design

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• As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.

  Vance Packard

  Blue, Sky, Numbers

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• The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fighting, Advice, Mind

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Long, Growth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Giving, Decision

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Wish, Energy

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