“[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 the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.” IfsDoeDecisionSituationAchieveMilitaryProduceBattleAimStrategyStrategicContinuationDislocation Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentJobsPolicyProduceStrategyIraqStableTroopsStatus QuoOur Troops Author:Hillary Clinton
“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.” NeedsStatesPoliticalEffortTechnologyEconomicProduceSeriousSourceDevelopmentConflictResearchOrganizationStrategyTerrorismReformAlliesPersonnelResearch And DevelopmentEconomic Reforms Author:Wesley Clark
“Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.” TryingUseStuffTechnologyProduceProductsRevolutionBeatsStrategyExtrasPensPlatformsIncumbentsSlick Author:Cory Doctorow
“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.” NeedsShouldBelieveMayCountryDoneEnergyI BelieveChallengesTechnologyDangerousProduceTomorrowStrategyCome UpNuclearNuclear Energy Author:Tom Vilsack
“No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.” WritingUseEasyProcessPayProduceStrategyProfessionArguingSimplify Author:Ryan Holiday
“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.” ThinkingMenTryingWould BeWantedMovingCertainHumanityCoursesLinesPerfectImagineProduceHe ManPerfectionStrategyCreatorValuableEndlessEmptinessTemporaryProphecyUtopiaContinuationToothachePerfect Society Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944 Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
“We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.” ThinkingNeedsLongGrowthTermEconomicProduceFoundationStrategyInvestmentBridgesLong TermInfrastructureStrategicStimulants Author:Roger McNamee
“Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.” LeaderProduceDevelopmentStrategyLeadership DevelopmentCaliber Author:Andy Stanley
“But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.” FeelsReasonIssuesProduceSolutionsStrategyCompellingLiberatingRejectingEnslavementCompelling Reason Author:Michael Foley
“With their endless vacations and pint-sized workweeks, Europe can't produce enough of anything - including more Europeans - to save themselves from doom. So the French and Germans have only one realistic strategy when it comes to revitalizing their comatose economies: Wait for the U.S. economy to rise high enough to float their petits bateaux.” EnoughWaitingEconomyProduceEuropeStrategyIncludingEndlessRealisticVacationFloatsDoomPintsComatose Author:Denis Boyles