Strategy Quotes

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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… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential… — B. H. Liddell Hart
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… — B. H. Liddell Hart
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce… — B. H. Liddell Hart
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they… — Elizabeth Debold
Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by… — Hal Elrod
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the… — Hartmut Esslinger
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to… — Vance Packard
Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do… — William J. Clinton
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders… — Bill Gates
The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses. — Morihei Ueshiba
A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy. — Brian Tracy
Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives… — Roman Abramovich
What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy. — Chogyam Trungpa
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But… — John Cleese
The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to… — Glenn Gould
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must… — Philip Guston
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. — Steve Lacy

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