Top 100 Quotes About Strategic
#1. The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.
Karen Blixen
#2. Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.
Richard Branson
#3. Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.
Alan Gotthardt
#4. I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
Allen West
#5. I think she broke, but not in the way I
or any of us
expected. She didn't go crazy. She became more focused. More strategic.
Ronie Kendig
#6. I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.
Donald Tusk
#7. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#8. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.
Carlos Wallace
#9. It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
Zhou Yongkang
#10. At this stage, don't take any of your statistics too literally and don't let any single number dominate your strategic thinking.
Anonymous
#11. Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
Saadi
#12. You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said.
'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
Juliet Marillier
#13. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"
Hugh Hewitt
#14. I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.
Steven Spielberg
#16. Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!
Christina Engela
#17. And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.
Marek Belka
#18. A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
George C. Marshall
#19. Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
Alexander P. De Seversky
#20. The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.
Jane Hirshfield
#21. If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.
Norman Finkelstein
#23. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown
#24. Strategic partnership is the truest foundation for marriage and intimacy. Strategic thinking does not assume atomistic individuals; indeed, Austen argues that strategic thinking in concert forms the basis of the closest human relationships.
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
#25. A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals.
Pearl Zhu
#26. I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#27. If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.
Rufus Wainwright
#28. We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.
Georgi Parvanov
#29. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#30. Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
Andy Grove
#31. The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
John Olver
#32. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
John Wooden
#33. We cannot count on strategic warning. We might get it, and we might be able to take useful preparatory actions that would be impossible without it. We certainly ought to plan to exploit such a possibility should it occur.
Anonymous
#34. Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
C. Robert Kehler
#35. Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
Mitchell Reiss
#36. We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#37. A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
Herman Kahn
#38. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
Ray Anderson
#39. Unquestionably, New York enjoyed enormous strategic significance. As Adams had already apprised Washington, it was the nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies ... the key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada, to the Great Lakes, and to all the Indian Nations.
Joseph J. Ellis
#40. Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science.
Pearl Zhu
#41. So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children's rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.
Malala Yousafzai
#42. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!
Nancy Tellem
#43. You have been placed in the position you are in because you are a strategic part of a divine purpose that is much larger than yourself.
Daniel Kolenda
#44. The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
Hamid Karzai
#45. I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
Craig Ferguson
#46. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
Max McKeown
#47. There is no trivia in a strategic mind.
Toba Beta
#48. India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term.
Martin Winterkorn
#49. Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy.
Ronald Reagan
#50. The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.
Noam Chomsky
#51. What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
Jack Welch
#52. The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
Stephen Kinzer
#53. There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.
Khaled Mashal
#54. It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
Miguel De Icaza
#55. Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
Dana Rohrabacher
#56. We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.
Pratibha Patil
#57. Strategic partners are way more important than money.
Daymond John
#58. The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes - picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.
Ram Charan
#59. First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.
Lev Polugaevsky
#60. Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.
Victor Koo
#61. From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi
#62. You can only analyze the data you
have. Be strategic about what to
gather and how to store it
Marie Curie
#63. I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.
Michael Hyatt
#64. The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohibitive losses.
Carl Andrew Spaatz
#65. A leader's most important job is creating and constantly adjusting this strategic bridge between goals and objectives.
Richard P. Rumelt
#66. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.
Sumantra Ghoshal
#67. The road to India, the Suez Canal, the oil fields of Mosul, the whole complex of political and strategic requirements that drew Britain into Palestine in 1918, began with the enterprise of the Elizabethan merchant adventurers.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#68. The sea slapped ominously, confessing its strategic impartiality. The sea is an international sea, and the sky a universal sky. Often we forget that. Often we think that what is verging upon us is ours alone. We forget that there are other sides entirely.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#69. The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
#70. Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.
Donna J. Haraway
#71. Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
Jonathan Turley
#72. We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.
J. Oswald Sanders
#73. The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
Ralph Abernathy
#74. Christians are God's delivery people, through whom he does his giving to a needy world. We are conduits of God's grace to others. Our eternal investment portfolio should be full of the most strategic kingdom-building projects to which we can disburse God's funds.
Randy Alcorn
#75. This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
#76. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
Andrew Griffin
#77. Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.
Robert Baer
#78. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#79. Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.
Jason Whitlock
#80. My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.
John Maeda
#81. The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.
Frank Shorter
#82. Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
Peter Senge
#83. Pruning is strategic. It is directional and forward-looking. It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. If you have that, you know what a rose is, and pruning will help you get one of true beauty.
Henry Cloud
#84. Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.
Pearl Zhu
#85. Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.
Pearl Zhu
#86. If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
Elliot Richardson
#87. No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
Stephen Kinzer
#88. Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#89. Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for a natural disaster or some other catastrophe.
Jason Chaffetz
#90. I always tried to align myself with strategic partners, friends, and information to help me with the things that I did not know, and ultimately, I made it.
Daymond John
#91. To stay relevant, you must keep your career in permanent beta. That means committing to a lifetime of learning and professional growth, a lifetime of strategic
Jay Samit
#92. Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
Carol Roth
#93. I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.
Steve Krug
#94. As stakeholders run for the exits, market value is destroyed, and with it the flexibility to make strategic decisions.
Larry Downes
#95. By setting the right priority and focusing resources and budget on the most critical areas, IT has the opportunity to not only be responsive but ultimately be the strategic business partner.
Pearl Zhu
#96. I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
Alastair Campbell
#97. A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
Alexander Haig
#98. The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.
Andrew Murray
#99. The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.
Tariq Ramadan
#100. It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
