Quotes About Strategic

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

As the Navy gets smaller, the world's oceans are becoming more dangerous.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Hay que admitir, en suma, que este poder se ejerce más que se posee, que no es el "privilegio" adquirido o conservado de la clase dominante sino el efecto de conjunto de sus posiciones estratégicas, efecto que manifiesta, y a veces acompaña, la posición de aquellos que son dominados.

We're not retreating. (Illyria) (Spike) It's so much easier if you just tell yourself you're strategically heading in the opposite direction of those that wish to do your harm so that you may mock them at a later time.

Based on your current results, what changes are you going to have to make to ensure that your products and services of tomorrow are exactly what the customers will be wanting at that time?

If we're just going to have contenders fighting just to fight, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Then I might as well just start jumping around divisions too because there's a lot of fun fights for myself in other divisions that I think I would love to entertain.

the value stream map looks at the high level activities that transform a request into some sort of deliverable . . . the purpose of value stream mapping is to design a strategic improvement plan that will be executed over a period of time; it's not designed to address problems at a detailed level

Pesimismul nu este o viziune asupra lumii, ci ocuparea unei pozi?ii strategice în fa?a imprevizibilului.

In practice, organizational change tends to be either trivial or traumatic. Every day, companies refresh products and improve processes with little drama. Strategic pivots, by contrast, tend to be convulsive, not unlike the uprisings that occasionally concuss poorly governed dictatorships.

There were plots afoot—plans of deceit, treason, and betrayal—and the only hope the Americans had to survive them was to be prepared. Washington knew that New York City was of the utmost strategic importance from a military perspective, but even he could not anticipate how crucial the intelligence collected there would be in saving the cause for liberty. And neither side, American nor British, could yet imagine just how deep the treachery reached within its own ranks.

You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.

By keeping back the twenty-five squadrons from the lost Battle of France, he acted toughly, wisely, and ungallantly; and he turned the war to the course that ended five long years later, when Hitler killed himself and Nazi Germany fell apart. This deed put Winston Churchill in the company of the rare saviors of countries, and perhaps of civilizations.

New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote, shortly after the war: The enemy, in a military sense, was in a hopeless strategic position by the time the Potsdam demand for unconditional surrender was made on July 26. Such then, was the situation when we wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Need we have done it? No one can, of course, be positive, but the answer is almost certainly negative.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.

Curran never did anything without a reason he was so controlled, even his one-night stands were premeditated.

The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.

When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

I think Milan lack a bit of renovation and planning for the future. Too often, they focused only on the present, particularly after the 2007 Champions League triumph.

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.

Trout moved, that's why he survived 12 rounds. If Hurd sat in front of me and took those shots, he'd be done.