I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
~By John McEnroe ~
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
~By Sun Tzu ~
We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
~By Carlos Ghosn ~
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
~By Michael Porter ~
Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
~By Artur Davis ~
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
~By Michael Porter ~
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
~By Michael Porter ~
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.
~By Angela Davis ~
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
~By Sun Tzu ~
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.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
~By Kent Conrad ~
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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?
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
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.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
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.
~By Barry Diller ~
We did not speak in terms of strategy, in terms of overall economies, in terms of production and territorial conquest. We spoke of the impact of the bomb on the homes and the hopes of men and women.
~By Philip Morrison ~
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
~By Paul Begala ~
As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
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.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
~By Michael Porter ~
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
~By Jack Welch ~
If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
~By Ron Suskind ~
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
~By Michael Porter ~
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~By Norman Schwarzkopf ~
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
~By Keith Sweat ~
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
~By Jef I. Richards ~
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.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
~By Frank Muir ~
I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.
~By Howard Coble ~
This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.
~By Marlin Fitzwater ~
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.
~By John Hewson ~
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
~By Anil Kapoor ~
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
~By Karl Rove ~
Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.
~By Ron Lewis ~
A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
~By Frank Luntz ~
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.
~By Anatoly Karpov ~
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.
~By Tina Brown ~
Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
~By Carl Hiaasen ~
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.
~By Ron Chernow ~
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
President Obama has embraced a partisan, polarizing strategy since day one when he chose hyper-partisan Rahm Emanuel to be his White House Chief of Staff.
~By Rory Cooper ~
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
~By Michael Porter ~
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
~By David Milne ~
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
~By Michael Porter ~
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
~By Max Euwe ~
Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
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.
~By Bruce McCulloch ~
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
~By John Baldacci ~
The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
~By Christina Romer ~
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
~By James Daly ~
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
~By Michael Porter ~
There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.
~By David Milne ~
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
~By Anita Brookner ~
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
~By Michael Porter ~
Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.
~By Franco Harris ~
So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.
~By John W. Thompson ~
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.
~By Rich Lowry ~
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
~By Miguel de Icaza ~
The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.
~By Robert Teeter ~
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
~By David Hackworth ~
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
~By John P. Kotter ~
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
~By Bruce Henderson ~
Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.
~By Merrie Spaeth ~
No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.
~By Allen West ~
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
~By Virgil ~
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~By Steve Lacy ~
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
~By Jesse James Garrett ~
If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.
~By Chuck Grassley ~
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.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
~By Michael Porter ~
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
~By Barry Commoner ~
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
~By Kofi Annan ~
So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
~By Juan Cole ~
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
~By Thomas Menino ~
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