Strategic Quotes

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

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.

I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Iran is biggest strategic beneficiary of invasion of Iraq.

We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

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.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.

The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is over.

Dan Pfeiffer for me probably the most concerning at all because he is the [President Barack Obama] strategic communications adviser. What's the strategy ?

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

If you say, "Are you going to change your strategic objective?", it means you're leaving before the mission is complete, and we're not going to leave before the mission in Iraq is complete.

Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Does Curran not involve you in his strategic sessions?” Ghastek asked. “Nope, I’m just here to look pretty.

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.

Turkey's a valued ally, important ally for NATO, not the least because of its strategic geographic location, bordering Syria and Iraq and close to Russia and the Black Sea.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

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.

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.