Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“High-performing companies view planning altogether differently. They want their forecasts to drive the work they actually do. To make this possible, they… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts,… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.… — Alan Cranston Copy Share Image
My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
I've done strategic planning, all kind of cash flows, but in fad marketing, it is all really irrelevant. It is marketing by… — Ken Hakuta Copy Share Image
...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult… — Alice Stewart Copy Share Image
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“there are a lot of talented folks who are not succeeding the way they want to because their strategies are broken. The… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“In the years between 2002 and 2009, there was no centralized national military strategy for Afghanistan—none. A strategy refers to a plan… — Rusty Bradley Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the increase in numbers of the strategic planners had the effect of releasing the client service people from any previous responsibilities… — Michael Farmer Copy Share Image
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“Strategy involves creating “fit” among a company’s activities. Fit has to do with the ways a company’s activities interact and reinforce one… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman didn't have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement, she was inspired by being sick and… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“This is the way for men who want to learn my strategy: 1. Do not think dishonestly. 2. The Way is in… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Dealing with the unknown, the unexpected, is a reflection for me musically of what's happening in the world, because people are learning… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
“Business-unit managers should remain involved in corporate-level strategy planning that affects their units. But a focus on issues rather than business units… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“It is often said that a strategy is a choice or a decision. The words “choice” and “decision” evoke an image of… — Richard P. Rumelt Copy Share Image
Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our… — Anthony Principi Copy Share Image
“We (McDonald's) are not technically in the food business. We are in the real estate business. The only reason we sell fifteen-cent… — Harry J. Sonneborn Copy Share Image
I'm a Jewish son of Russian-Hungarian heritage parents. Humor was very important. My whole goal was to make my parents laugh. And… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I think I was able to show that I can be someone that gets better and better, when before people used to… — Mackenzie Dern Copy Share Image
Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
![“My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest [workers]. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very…” quote by Paul Polman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e4/paul-polman-3721_able_my-biggest-fear-is-that-we-unilever-comp_394400.jpg)
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