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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently. -- Uday Kotak
Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy. -- Lena Olin
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. -- Charles de Gaulle
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. -- Mitch Kapor
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete. -- Simon Sinek
It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes. -- Alexa Von Tobel
What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver. -- Douglas Alexander
I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation. -- Randy Falco
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first. -- Andrea Jung
For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy. -- Debbie Stabenow
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off. -- Wang Jianlin
The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate. -- Bobby Jindal
I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices. -- Gemma Arterton
I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy. -- John Battelle
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue. -- Jeff Raikes
I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors. -- Alan Dershowitz
There must be an opportunity that matches with our strategy. Just because we have a gap, we don't want to go and acquire anything and everything. What we acquire should fit in with our strategy, human resources and market expectations. -- Adi Godrej
I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy. -- Andrew Lansley
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection. -- Mark Skousen
I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together. -- Aidan Gillen
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal -- Michael Porter
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. -- Michael Porter
The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy. -- Clayton Christensen
Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services. -- Bill Gates

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