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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Thinking, Transition

  "Bill Gates: The future according to the world's richest man". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. March 20, 2006.

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• Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Offering, Community

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• When you lack cohesion, it becomes difficult to have a clear marketing strategy.

  Jim Courier

  Marketing, Cohesion, Difficult

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

  Naveen Jain

  Block, Winning, Break Through

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Strength, War, Self

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• Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

  John P. Kotter

  Inspirational, Leader, Vision

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  The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

  Jacqueline Gareau

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Meaningful, Warrior, Men

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

  Chuck Martin

  Communication, Execution, Results

  Chuck Martin (2005). “Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow the Business in Good Times and Bad”, p.12, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

  William Hague

  Hard Work, Growth, Hard

  "Work harder, William Hague tells Britons". Interview with Patrick Hennessy, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 12, 2012.

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• What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

  Leon Trotsky

  May, Business Strategy

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• To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.

  Julius Caesar

  Winning, Roles, Arms

  "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner, 47 BC.

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• Attack the enemy's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.59, Adams Media

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• In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

  Tom Peters

  Organization, Two, World

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• In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

  John Romero

  Perspective, Missing, Marketing

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• If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2016

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• I want to put a ding in the universe.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crush

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mean, Purpose, Investing

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• There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Decision, Competition, Hunters

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• Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

  Plautus

  Motivational, Success, Animal

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley”, p.249

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• Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

  Herodotus

  Opportunity, Views, Decision

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