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• Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Rude, Decision, Destination

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wise, Men, Decision

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• Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Would Be, Needs, Competitors

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Hope is not a strategy.

  Sarah Palin

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• What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Gains, Would Be, Needs

  Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Decision, Looks

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Ubiquity Interview, ubiquity.acm.org. July, 2000.

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• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Science, Order

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5

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• Defeat the enemies strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Decision, Enemy, Defeat

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• I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

  Ben Kingsley

  Waiting, Scripts, Honest

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• I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Obsessed, Results

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Business

  "Basics of retail Management". Book by Narendra Kumar et al.,

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• Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our
  time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you
  really care about. Do you?

  Tom Peters

  Lying, Priorities, Care

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• Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reality, Vision, Fit

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

  Jim Rohn

  Skills

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 17, 2017

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Future, Entrepreneur

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• The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

  Sun Tzu

  Knowledge, Conflict, Unnecessary

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

  Thomas Sowell

  Latin, Media, Leader

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

  Carolyn Hax

  People, Miserable, Exposure

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2016.

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• God employs different strategies for different places or purposes

  Rick Joyner

  Different, Purpose, Different Place

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• Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

  Sun Tzu

  Wrecks, Weak

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• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  Russell Baker

  War, Thinking, Opposites

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• Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Leadership, Running

  "Stop Stealing Dreams". medium.com. March 6, 2016.

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• The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

  Constantinos C. Markides

  Errors, Planning, Process

  "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.

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• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Henderson

  Successful, Differences, Essentials

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• I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

  Curtis Jackson

  Mass Destruction, Mind, Majority

  "50 Cent: What I've Learned" by Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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