"Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results."
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"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."
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"The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always."
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"You cannot make a cheap palace."
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"A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit."
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"Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone."
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"It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story."
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"The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average."
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"Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy."
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"Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete."
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"Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know."
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"I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect."
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"What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product."
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"As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible."
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"What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy."
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"The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads."
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"Any approach that doesn't acknowledge the Palestinians' legitimate rights is doomed to fail. That also applies to any strategy that ignores the fact that Hamas is a part of the Palestinian resistance."
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"Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business."
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"I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy"
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"Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy."
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