Strategy Quotes - Page 23

• A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

  Reuben Fine

  Moving, Games, Chess

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• The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Essentials, Chess, Firsts

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Player, Risk

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Variation

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• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Progress

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• When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Games, Creating, Weakness

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• However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

  Paul Keres

  Stubborn, Chess, Resistance

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

  Seth Godin

  Used

  "Strategy matters more than ever". sethgodin.typepad.com. July 23, 2012.

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• When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Differences, Creating

  "Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School". Book by Richard Branson, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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• Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Work, Special, Purpose

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• Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.

  Simon Sinek

  Focus, Effort, Vision

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2012

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• What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

  Anatole France

  Climbing, Bridges, Rivers

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• Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business sense.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Morning, Intelligent, Greatness

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• You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

  Patrick Dixon

  World, Care, Ifs

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hard Work, Needs, Vote

  "Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney’s ‘Latino Problem", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Bold objects require conservative engineering.

  James E. Webb

  Engineering, Conservative, Objects

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• If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ems, Beats, Ifs

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• To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Conquer

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• Speed has become an important element of strategy.

  Regis McKenna

  Important, Elements, Speed

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• The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

  Peter Ellyard

  Future, Design, Challenges

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• Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Pay, Results

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• Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Children, Careers, Goal

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• Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

  Max McKeown

  People, Helping, Corporate

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.37, Pearson UK

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• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Order, Europe, Leader

  Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

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