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• Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

  Gary Hamel

  Loyalty, Irrelevance, Long

  "Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation". Interview with Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. December 04, 2012.

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• Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Art, Trying, Patents

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• If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Winning, Games, Play

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• I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

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• Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

  Dan Lipinski

  Long, Energy, Anwr

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• Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Goal, Empowering

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• Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

  James McGreevey

  Political, Identity, Campaigns

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• Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

  Bode Miller

  Change, Sports, Focus

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• I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Voting, Principles

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• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hate, Thinking, Play

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• If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Design, Tree

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• In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Use, Complicated

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• The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Military, Fighting, Agriculture

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Technology, Partnership, Social

  Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Finals, May, Firsts

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• We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Sports, Blood, Long

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• Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Attitude, Media

  Douglas Rushkoff (2006). “ScreenAgers: Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids”, Hampton Press (NJ)

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• Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, Cells, Landscape

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Ecommerce, Ifs

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• In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Tree, Gone

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

  Colin Powell

  War, Cutting, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

  Scott Adams

  Being Yourself, Believe, Mean

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• As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Taken, Garden

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• Even God used silence as a strategy.

  Gregory Maguire

  Silence, Used

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• [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophy, College, Men

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