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• This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.

  Steve Fisher

  Our World, Class, Alliances

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• I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.

  Richard Schmid

  Mean, Thinking, Starting Over

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• The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Past, Iron, World

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• You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Apples, Perfect

  Fortune magazine, September 18, 1995.

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• I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

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• Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

  Steve Jobs

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• If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Leadership, Looks, Masters

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.16, Bottom of the Hill

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• Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Unhappy, Battle, Fields

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Learn when to fear, and how to fear, and how much to fear, before you squander all you have left.

  Janet Morris

  Left

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• We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

  Youth Lagoon

  Writing, Agendas, Reason

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Your strategy is the road map for bringing your goals to fruition... Ask yourself, 'What are the steps I need to take to achieve this goal?' Be careful not to overwhelm yourself by taking on too much at once.

  Lauren Mackler

  Goal, Needs, Fruition

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• Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

  Ben Bernanke

  Moving, Turkeys, Want

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• A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Successful, Skills, Focus

  "Gov. Blagojevich Announces Major Opportunity Returns Investment to Bring Leading Manufacturer and 480 Jobs to Macomb". Illinois Government Network, February 22, 2005.

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• What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

  Gary North

  Dominion, Ten Commandments, Ten

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• Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

  George Friedman

  Reality, Tactics, Might

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• Most calves and fawns will soon die. Only the luckiest and fittest will survive. Therefore either hunters or Mother Nature can take them. The logical harvesting strategy is to take calves or fawns during the fall hunting seasons, before winter can waste them.

  Valerius Geist

  Mother, Fall, Winter

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• Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Writing, Candor

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• Scale will get you strategy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Scales

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• The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Long, Defense

  1955 Economics and the Art of Controversy.

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• In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

  Clayton Christensen

  Careers, Alternatives, Path

  "Building A Strategy For Your Career" by Clayton M. Christensen, www.cnbc.com. May 23, 2012.

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• You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

  William J. Clinton

  Brain, Opponents, Losing

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• What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

  Tom Peters

  Volunteer, Next, Hours

  Tom Peters Daily / Weekly Quote (from tompeters.com), February 4, 2013.

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• A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.

  Nancy Birdsall

  Country, Book, Intelligent

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• Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Treasure, Way

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.31, Lulu.com

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