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• Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Should, Implementing

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• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

  Peter Senge

  Years, People, Majority

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• Strategy is a system of expedients.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings". Book by Daniel J. Hughe, p. 124, 1993.

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• Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.

  Gil Blake

  Winning, Opportunity, People

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• Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

  Brian Chesky

  Jobs, Successful, Numbers

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• Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward.

  Martin O'Malley

  Moving, America

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2015.

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• We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.

  Michael Corbat

  Strong, Unique, Play

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• I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

  Marc Rich

  Top Management, Two, Growth

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• Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

  Robert Greene

  Details, Looks, Defeat

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• Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

  Merrie Spaeth

  Yale, Media, Unusual

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• Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform satisfies the needs of a potentially infinite number of niche audiences around the world.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Numbers, Ties, Needs

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• Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

  Babur

  Arrows, Waiting, Fit

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• Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

  Richard Grasso

  Opportunity, Calm, Periods

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• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  John W. Thompson

  Integrity, Moving, Data

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ought

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.

  Kurt Schmoke

  War, Thinking, Drug

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• Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Satan, Defeat

  Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.24, Zondervan

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• This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hopeful, Direct Approach

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• The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Mean

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• It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, War

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• To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Should Have

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• The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Levels

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• The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Soldier

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Balance, Usual

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• In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Lying

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