If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves. – Michael T. Flynn
We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term… And we’ve identified non-core assets we have shed. – Michael Corbat
The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don’t always do, because sometimes I just can’t, for various reasons that seem out of my control. – Nick Flynn
The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis. – Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. – Miguel de Icaza
Our MPs will take decisions on how they’re voting on a day-to-day basis. But I’m the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine. – Nicola Sturgeon
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon’s southern strategy, and now people are paying the price. – Deborah Kass
As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to ‘close with, and destroy, the enemy.’ Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars. – Pete Hegseth
‘Cyber-security’ is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy. – David Ignatius
Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they’re blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue. – P. J. O’Rourke
We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave. – Max Cleland
This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all. – Mike McCaul
In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on. – Matthew Stewart
A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story. – Chuck Klosterman
My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it’s TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working. – Dan Byrd
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries. – Cynthia P. Schneider
The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept. – Daniel Pipes
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything. – Carl Icahn
Everything’s mobile these days. Let’s go mo-bile! But really, that’s just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don’t get it, and you move on. – Michael Arrington
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’m fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there’s a right way and a wrong way to get the job done. – Cindy Morgan
My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed. – Gautam Adani
I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it’s totally fine. There’s a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, ‘Would you like soup with that?’ – Michelle Gomez
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I’m the least authoritarian professor you’ll ever meet. – Niall Ferguson
The object of China’s strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world’s premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. – Frank Gaffney
Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players. – Franco Harris