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• Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.

  David Cortright

  Bars, Moral, Hypocritical

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• Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

  Alan Cranston

  Running, Nuclear Disarmament, Defense

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• Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Chess, Logical

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• In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

  Thomas Menino

  Fighting, Boston, Cities

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• Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

  David Lange

  Mean, Eye, Deployment

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.

  Tom Peters

  Success, Real, Creativity

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• We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

  George Barna

  Religion, Way, Assumption

  George Barna (1995). “Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel”, Gospel Light Publications

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• Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

  Artur Davis

  Running, Years, Four

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• Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Focus, Achievement, Effort

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

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• NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges

  Angela Merkel

  War, Challenges, Historical

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• People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Fighting, Animal, Years

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• We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

  Nick Denton

  Believe, Web Content, Opinion

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• As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

  Ursula Burns

  Powerful, Practice, Careers

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

  David Whyte

  Imagination, Identity, Tests

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• Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

  Tim Brown

  Thinking, Way, Designer

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Building Up

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• Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was  expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: “The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”

  Edwin Lefevre

  New York, Mistake, Successful

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

  Ginni Rometty

  Years, Priorities, Together

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• Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Stalking, Underrated

  Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.41, Penguin

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• Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Team, Commitment, Impact

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• For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

  Nelson Mandela

  Principles, Moral Goodness, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

  William Cohen

  Fall, Successful, Competition

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• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  William Cohen

  Successful, Opportunity, Problem

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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