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“If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.”

Ifs States Would Be America United Company United States Drug Strategy Access Evaluate Prescriptions Prescription Drugs Pricing Drug Companies

Author:Chuck Grassley

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

Culture Strategy Breakfast Corporate Culture Company Culture Culture Change

Author:Peter Drucker

“The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.”

Men Doe Winning He Man Strategy Superiors

Book:Scientific Advertising Origins

Source: Scientific Advertising Origins

“Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.”

Important Together Winning Individual Sports Player Team Talent Strategy Working Together Sports Team

Author:Elon Musk

“Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.”

Goal Growth Greater Achieve Strategy Incredibles Software Microsoft Agility Executing

Author:Steve Ballmer

“What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.”

Men Said Problem America Guy Fighting Force Enemy Happened Planets Members Men And Women Strategy Horrible Ideology Texas Afghanistan Troops Hood Symbolism Goofy Forts

Author:Mark Steyn

“At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”

People Ends Strategy The End Of The Day Hiring Human Resources Smart People Recruitment

Author:Lawrence Bossidy

“The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.”

Helping Individual Building Organization Strategy

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.”

Happens Fighting Individual Waiting Military Events Changed Aim Strategy Harm September September 11 Military Strategy

Author:Jim Gerlach

“Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'”

Way Writing Children Book Fighting Military Concepts Tradition Strategy Metaphor Campaigns My Way Mars Tactics Writing A Book

Author:James Hillman

“What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.”

Source: The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

“In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.”

World Two Life Is Organization Strategy Two Things

Author:Tom Peters

“If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.”

People Ifs May Language Plans Minutes Havens Pages Twenties Strategy Complexes Simplicity Nonsense Business Strategy Plain Language

Author:Lawrence Bossidy

“The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.”

Trying Company Willing Strategy Willing To Try

Author:Michael Porter

“Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.”

Ifs Asks Lost Shots Strategy Golf Saved Temper Capability Lost You

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Survival is a growth strategy.”

Growth Survival Strategy

Author:Ian Hogarth

“The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis”

Thinking Common Effort Strategy Reports Partnership Prevention Initiation Osteoporosis

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.”

Children School Strategy Substitutes Instruction Testing Closing Educator Curriculum Good Education

Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Needs Trying Reading Asks Successful Share Fit Strategy Experiments Being Successful Hanging Out Successful People New Ways Way Of Thinking New Ways Of Thinking

Author:Jack Canfield

“But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care”

Two Important Care Education Issues Economic Strategy Dollars Investment Health Care Addresses Incentives Kansas Economic Issues

Author:Kathleen Sebelius

“As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.”

People Knows Ends Plans Civilization Picks Strategy Western Selling Knees Website Western Civilization Private Insurance

Author:Kathleen Sebelius

“Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.”

Actors Alive Stones Strategy

Author:Claire Danes

“I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.”

Thinking Trying Political Constitution Strategy

Author:Mary Cheney

“There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.”

Men Might Deals Doctors Strategy Medicine Architect Organisms Interiors Spectacular Laboratory Exterior

Book:Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Source: Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.”

Ifs World Quality Advantage Female Strategy Males Clever Attractive High Quality

Author:Susan Blackmore

“If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.”

Ifs Choices Social Justice Policy Theory Institutions Strategy Guides Sufficient Arrangements Identification

Book:The Idea of Justice

Source: The Idea of Justice

“You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.”

Needs Hard Choices Risk Increase Strategy Objectives Uncomfortable Odds

Author:Roger Martin

“Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.”

Prayer Strategy Blank

Book:The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

Source: The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

“What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.”

Stories Ability Successful Plans Tools Strategy Entrepreneur Foresight Misguided Differentiate Successful Entrepreneurs Success Stories

Author:Eric Ries

“Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.”

Giving Heart Judging Court Strategy Heart Attack Court System

Author:Jerry Rubin

“An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.”

Whole Together Culture Fit Integrity Healthy Organization Management Strategy Make Sense Operations Consistent

Book:The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

Source: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

“If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”

Ifs Years Nations Interest Security Military Strategy Financial Spending Defense Budgets Investors National Security Payment Borrowing Robust Niagara Military Budget

Author:Mitch Daniels

“Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.”

Silence Argument Strategy Favors Addresses Silence Is Status Quo Maintaining Refusal

Author:PZ Myers

“At least three further requirements supplement the strategies of environmentalists if we were to create and preserve a less violent world. 1) Every culture must begin to affirm the female future. 2) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture. 3) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately ten percent of the human race.”

Ifs Men World Humans Culture Three Race Responsibility Ten Percent Female Strategy Species Violent Preserves Human Race Proportion Requirements Supplements Environmentalist

Author:Sally Miller Gearhart

“As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.”

Teacher Strategy Professors Questioning Authoritarian Government

Author:Niall Ferguson

“A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it. For those familiar with the details, there is much new information about the Iran side, its ideas, strategies, disputes, and aims. U.S. experts will have some key questions but will learn much from this extraordinary book.”

“The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.”

Important States Understanding Strategy Entrepreneur Outcomes Transition

Author:Sean Parker

“Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.”

“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.”

Ifs Moments Strategy Alternatives Preparation Considering Bad Times Receptive Creativity And Innovation Timeliness Takeoff

Author:John Cleese

“When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.”

Motivational Sports Comfortable Strategy Prepared Preparation

Author:Fred Couples

“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.”

Ifs Certain Goal Clear Strategy Missions Commit Troops Exit American Troops

Author:Karen Hughes

“The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.”

World Running Rooms Company Strategy Branding Overhead

Author:Barry Diller

“If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.”

Ifs Problem Strategy Flirting Harassment

Author:John Scalzi

“You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.”

Able Courses Roles Program Strategy Plot Protest March Conferences Researchers

Author:Whitney M. Young

“Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

Play Sides Strategy Chess Boards Favourite Both Sides Playing Chess

Book:My best games of chess, 1924-1937

Source: My best games of chess, 1924-1937

“The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.”

Important Strategy Managers Facility

Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.”

War Used Order Nations Security Strategy Preserves Atmosphere National Security Distrust Diplomacy Tactics Instability Preemption

Author:Ellen Tauscher

“Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.”

People Men Hands Strong Strategy Cunning Shields

Author:Victorio

“Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments”

Seems Mistake Weakness Strategy Threat Rewards Punishment Fierce Severe Psychics Admitting Reward And Punishment

Author:Tina Brown

“And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.”

Thinking Certain Black Class Movement Products Strategy Liberation Division

Author:Angela Davis

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