Strategic Quotes - Page 15

• It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Law

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Battle

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Crush, Country, Blow

  "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" by David Hafemeister, (p. 94), 1991.

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• Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners.

  Carol Roth

  Partners, Outstanding

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• A wise man once said that a person is known by
  the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the
  company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially
  at the strategic decision making level.

  Anuj

  Wise, Character, Men

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• The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Organization, Innovation, Analysis

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• Arthur Hughes is one of the pioneers of modern database marketing. His new book, Strategic Database Marketing, Third Edition, contains the wisdom of twenty years of database marketing experience from scores of companies throughout the US. I can heartily endorse Arthur's book for anyone who wants to know the state of the art in database marketing today.

  Lester Wunderman

  Art, Book, Years

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• I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

  Pitbull

  Goal, Vision, Plans

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Iran, Political

  "Secretary of State Albright Announces Easing of U.S. Trade Ban on Iran". Speech at CNN, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2000.

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• Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

  Diplo

  Secret, Enemy, Stuff

  "Diplo Says He Knows Taylor Swift’s ‘Secrets’ And He’s ‘Scared For His Life’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.

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• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

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• More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.

  Peter Dicken

  Alliances, Venture, Different

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

  Laura Lee

  Winning, Men, Games

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• I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual train of circumstances, to witness the moving scenes that I have resolved to describe. In these pages I give only my personal impressions; so my readers should not look here for specific details, nor for information on strategic matters; these things have their place in other writings.

  Henry Dunant

  Moving, Writing, Giving

  "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 16; As quoted in The Independent, February 22, 2002, 1862.

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• Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.

  Anthony Eden

  Real, Europe, Political

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1962). “Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs”, London : Cassell

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• I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.

  Robert L. Peters

  Clients, Excited, Construction

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• I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Believe, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US nuclear warning system had detected an imminent 220-missile nuclear attack on the US. Shortly thereafter, the automated system revised its projection from 220 missiles to an all-out attack of 2200 missiles. Just before Brzezinski was about to wake up President Carter to authorize a counterattack, he was told that the 'attack' was an illusion caused by 'a computer error in the system'.

  Stansfield Turner

  Air, Errors, June

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• The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".

  Vladimir Putin

  People, Substance, Levels

  Source: thesaker.is

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

  Ray Dalio

  Should Have, Assuming, Assets

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

  Carly Fiorina

  Vision, Important, Looks

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• Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

  Lester Thurow

  Technology, Skills, Foundation

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• There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Lines, Campaigns

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.131, Princeton University Press

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• The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

  Adi Da

  Religious, League, Done

  Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

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