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“If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is”

Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith

“Strategy is about shaping the future.”

Business Strategy Shaping The Future

Book:The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

Source: The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

“Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.”

Giving Trying Doe Different Ends Grows Rooms Arms Bears Succeed Eternal Weapons Hatred Overcoming Method Strategy Ancient Warrior Conquer Timeless Ancient Wisdom

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.”

Ifs Knows Needs Reality Impossible Design Waste Strategy Currents Wasting Time Implementing

Book:Next Generation Leader

Source: Next Generation Leader

“Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more compelling as Berkshire's capital mushroomed and the universe of investments that could significantly affect our results shrank dramatically. Therefore, we adopted a strategy that required our being smart and not too smart at that, only a very few times. Indeed, we now settle for one good idea a year.”

“As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.”

Problem Military Victory Resources Advantage Decided Ultimate Organization Strategy Access Campaigns Humanist Efficient Warfare Pragmatic Factions

Book:Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

Source: Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

“I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.”

Want Long Country Term Views Class Clear Cutting Economic Middle Taxes Strategy Presidential Long Term Middle Class Fairness Short Term Tax Cuts

Author:William J. Clinton

“This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.”

Political Politics Policy Changed Strategy All Time

Author:Marlin Fitzwater

“Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.”

Humans Use Seems Political Politics Issues Military Theory Huge Mass Strategy Soldier Wave Campaigns Chinese Budgets Substitutes Adversaries Gop Beijing

Author:Dick Morris

“Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.”

Political Politics Winning Election Strategy Overrated

Author:Dick Morris

“No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.”

Should Home Values House Winning Appreciate Strategy Rate Significant Saving Reasonable Retirement Inflation Counting

Author:Mark Zandi

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

Powerful Technology Team Building Advantage Ultimate Remains Strategy Finance Teamwork Team Building Competitive Advantage

Book:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Strategy is not focused on ROI, but on winning.”

Winning Strategy Social Media Focused Roi

Author:Paul Shannon

“When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!”

Firsts Night Values Sleep Simple Weakness Strategy Investing Insightful Suggestions Strength And Weakness

Author:Walter Schloss

“The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.”

“He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.”

Life Inspiration Remember Space Five Strategy Companion Combat

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely”

Should Policy Tools Foundation Strategy Democratic Committed Various Sincere Transition

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.”

Ifs Games Can Do Perfect Effort Pay Player Groups Mystery Team Talent Basketball Strategy Oneness Fragile Offense Elusive Foolproof

Book:Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Source: Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

“Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.”

Firsts Intellectual Strategy Satan

Book:The Surpassing Greatness of His Power

Source: The Surpassing Greatness of His Power

“God employs different strategies for different places or purposes”

Different Purpose Strategy Different Place

Author:Rick Joyner

“By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.”

Nations Growth Quality Economic Built Program Strategy Environmental Economic Growth Adopting Antagonism Environmental Quality

Author:Barry Commoner

“The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!”

“So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.”

“A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.”

Ifs Matter Enough Failing Information Strategy Execution Lame

Author:Bill Gates

“Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.”

Needs Succeed Strategy Customers Lowest

Author:Bill Gates

“In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.”

Way Inspirational Littles Made Helping Mistake Strategy Errors Help Me Get Away Little Time Headquarters

Author:Larry Ellison

“Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.”

Inspirational Done Strategy Innovative Acquisition

Author:Larry Ellison

“Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.”

Seems Values Behavior Strategy Investment Gambling

Author:Seth Klarman

“The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.”

World Shows Action Social Church Creative Achieve Offers Strategy Stranger Coercion

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.”

Religion Social Church Christianity Strategy Theologian

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.”

Way Lost Growth Church Strategy Church Growth

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy.”

World Heart Use Easy Demand Organization Strategy Simplicity Customers Ease Organize Organizational Tsunami Ease Of Use

Author:Gerry McGovern

“The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance.”

Made Reason Political Cases Movement Theory Fairs Strategy Forums Electorate Lobbying Creationist

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.”

Real Hell Picks Strategy Real Life Straightforward Business Strategy

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.”

Values Results Products Strategy Customers Employee Shareholders Shareholder Value

Author:Jack Welch

“When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.”

Strategy Pondering

Author:Jack Welch

“Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.”

Hands Motivational Poor Leader Agree Strategy Average Execution Better Off Superb Upper Hand

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.”

Firsts Names Company Strategy Bullets Competitors Obsolete Unborn Innovators Dodge Somewhere Out There

Author:Gary Hamel

“Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.”

Needs War Winning Leader Vision Paper Strategy Superiors Bullets Right Time Toilets Right Place Toilet Paper Logistics

Author:Tom Peters

“With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.”

Ifs Way Needs Should War Acting Knowing Trouble Opposites Cameras Strategy Rolling Exit No Exit

Author:John Cusack

“Looking back on 200 years of feminist agitation in this country, we've got to get it that the moral high ground doesn't get us anything. Pleading with powerful men never gets us what we need. Talking doesn't do it. Being right doesn't do it. Hardball politics does it ... and a political strategy.”

Men Needs Years Doe Country Political Powerful Talking Moral Strategy Feminist Looking Back Agitation Pleading Powerful Man High Ground Moral High Ground

Author:Naomi Wolf

“This years keynote session is a clear reminder that wireless data technology is expanding its reach beyond that of an alternative to wireline telephony. We have gathered an exclusive group of business leaders to share how wireless is being integrated into their companys business strategies and what it means for their bottom lines. The presence of these telecom, media and entertainment giants on our center stage is a great indicator of the impact wireless data has made on countless industries.”

“Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.”

Strategy Marketing Advertising Timing Himalayas

Book:Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition

Source: Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition

“Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.”

Ifs Risk Function Management Strategy Scenarios Risk Management

Book:Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

Source: Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

“Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.”

Needs Differences Communication Strategy Fulfilling Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“My need is for safety, fun and to have distribution of resources, a sustainable life on the planet. NVC is a strategy that serves me to meet these needs.”

Needs Fun Planets Communication Resources Safety Strategy Distribution Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything that is not in the service of a need, there is no conflict on our planet at the level of needs. We all have the same needs. The problem is in strategies for meeting the needs.”

Knows Needs Humans Moments Problem Human Beings Levels Planets Communication Conflict Strategy Meetings That Moment Our Planet Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.”

War Problem Taught Drug Police Strategy Alcohol Jail Anarchy Prohibition Taught Us War On Drugs

Author:Rodney S. Quinn

“In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.”

Long Doe Political Dies Next Politician Weapons Murder Election Strategy Lays Killing Golden Eggs Geese Fingerprints Golden Eggs

Author:Thomas Sowell

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