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“Last year was the best Father's Day ever, 1,000th win for Ford and to have my daughter there for her first victory lane. I'm not sure how to top that, but hopefully something spectacular will happen. Michigan is one of my favorite tracks; it's a big fast place and has lots of room to race. There is always a lot of strategy going on. Fuel mileage and pit stops are very important.”

“Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future, Ron Baker has again evolved thought leadership on the critical dynamics of value and pricing. Baker's latest work, Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value, provides real-world examples and practical strategies that provide a framework for pricing optimization. His clarity of purpose and passionate call to action resonates in today's intellectual capital economy.”

“Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.”

“Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.”

Fit Resources Strategy Aspiration Ambitious Stretching Limited Resources

Author:C. K. Prahalad

“The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.”

Should Kind Made Business Company Messages Strategy Improvement Business Success Improving Key To Success Road To Success Recipe For Success Continuous Improvement Kaizen

Author:Masaaki Imai

“Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.”

“Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.”

Practice Performances Strategy Superiors Guarantees Investors Conventional Superior Performance

Author:Seth Klarman

“I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.”

Trying Running Lasts Night Information Months Six Strategy Miles Every Night Multitudes Living My Life Six Months Hash

Author:Ryan Holiday

“But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire.”

Humans Stills Ends Fire Pieces Building Wall News Intelligent Majority Strategy West Dues Miraculous Most Amazing Containing Firefighter Staircases West End

Author:Muriel Gray

“The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [...] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.”

States Helping United United States Car Willing Comfort Red Crosses Remains Strategy International Aids Driving Tactics Red Cross Driving Cars

Author:George W. Bush

“Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves”

May Moving Winning Behinds Enemy Missing Keys Strategy Opponents Contempt

Author:David Hackworth

“The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.”

Has Beens Strategy Proven Israeli

Author:Mohammed Dahlan

“I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.”

Funny Political Strategy Democrat Expensive Gas Polls Polling

Author:John F. Kerry

“Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.”

Ifs Rooms Known Practice Strategy Clinton Usa Specks

Author:Grover Norquist

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.”

War Worst Military Strategy Investing Tactics Great Business

Author:George S. Patton

“Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well.”

Should Mind Wells Heart Important Strategy Marketing Display

Book:Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing

Source: Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing

“I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.”

Thinking Young Realizing Arms Baseball Strategy Pitcher

Author:Bruce McCulloch

“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.”

World Firsts Lasts Missing Perspective Strategy Marketing Customers Prospects Marketing Strategy Business Strategy Great Marketing

Author:John Romero

“Their marketing strategy had to be changed to the young people. That's who buys the beer.”

People Young Changed Strategy Marketing Beer Marketing Strategy

Author:Felix Sabates

“We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.”

Source: The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

“I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.”

Believe Humans Passion I Believe Music Is Strategy Curiosity Marketing Connected Marketing Strategy Music Is My Passion

Author:Elvis Costello

“I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.”

Thinking Way Years Wells May Said Known Support Plans Strategy Eight Campaigns Granted Candidates Right Way Well Known Don't Take Anything For Granted

Author:Hillary Clinton

“True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.”

Transformation Strategy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”

Age Together Three Security Strategy Ancient Empires Protected Brutal Dependence Imperatives Barbarians Coming Together Terminology Collusion

Book:The Grand Chessboard

Source: The Grand Chessboard

“Suggestion is a literary strategy.”

Strategy Suggestions

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.”

Ifs Giving Giving Up Strategy Chess Defenders

Book:The Game of Chess

Source: The Game of Chess

“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”

Knowing Strategy Tactics Knowing What To Do

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.”

People Should Mind Believe Humans Long Made Different Fall Fighting Mistake Agree Method Strategy Separation Objectives All Time Recognition Confusing Tactics This Society

Author:Malcolm X

“The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.”

Ifs Firsts Matter Seems Certain Winning Loses Chance Policy Victory Strategy Defeat Inevitable

Book:A Journey

Source: A Journey

“What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?”

Want Done Order Results Periods Projects Importance Strategy Available Productivity Application Efforts Wasted

Author:Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

“And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.”

Ifs Want Reason Grows Focus Growing Discipline Strategy Add Customers Stores Competitors

Author:Jim Cantalupo

“People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.”

People Knows Needs Writing Doe Courses Winning Lines Clear Focus Strategy Alternatives Thoughtful Consistently Finish Line

Author:Phil McGraw

“We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.”

Believe Wells Strong Vision Focus Achieve Strategy Excellence Critical Combination Operations Execution

Author:Azim Premji

“Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.”

“For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.”

Kind President Economic Taste Crisis Strategy Greed Midst Executives Awards Tolerate Packages Compensation Bad Taste Economic Crisis

Author:Barack Obama

“Get out well, but not too quickly, move through the field, be comfortable. Strategy-wise, go with your strengths. If you don't have a great finish, you must get away to win. I've always found it effective to make a move just before the crest of a hill. You get away just a little and you're gone before your opponent gets over the top. Also, around a tight bend, take off like holy hell. I've done that a number of times. You should not be flying down the home straight. Most of your efforts should have been put forth earlier.”

“The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.”

People Common Creativity Successful Waste Innovation Strategy Successful People Copying Creativity And Innovation Don't Waste Your Time

Author:Seth Godin

“Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.”

Long Term Principles Successful Green Strategy Embrace Climate Change Wave Long Term Equity Eco

Author:Van Jones

“Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.”

People Way Should Lasts Industry Strategy Climate Change Oil Fuel Convince Reserves Coal Fossils Fossil Fuel

Book:The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.”

“Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.”

Men Children Facts Age Security Materials Evolution Activity Commitment Resources Strategy Investment Heavy Stakes Consistently Cardinals Courtship Mating

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly support gay marriage. What if someone told you you couldn't marry the one you love? I think it's about time! Let people who love each other that are the same sex get married. They deserve the right to be happy also.”

People Ifs Thinking Care Sex Support Gay Married Deserve Strategy Campaigns Ridiculous What If Who Cares Gay Marriage Love Each Other One You Love Support Gay Marriage

Author:Barack Obama

“Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.”

“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”

Journey Instruments Strategy Maps

Author:Gail Pool

“I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.”

Kind Awareness Strategy Patterns Emptiness Abyss

Author:Gangaji

“A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.”

Vision Morning Illusion Remains Strategy Monday Monday Morning

Author:Lee Bolman

“I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy”

Made Ideas Ability Player Genius Strategy Chess Freshness Pragmatism Fischer

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.”

Ifs Success Vision Clear Strategy Clear Vision

Author:Michael Hyatt

“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.”

May Has Beens Opportunity Decision Views Opinion Particular Strategy Bounds Variety Selection Business Strategy

Author:Herodotus

“Wise man also fears a weak enemy.”

Men Decision Enemy Wise Weak Strategy

Author:Publilius Syrus

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