Strategic Quotations

Many of our traditional partners are positioning themselves as strong regional players... Shell is a global player. And as the global gas markets develop... we will be creating a global strategic partnership.

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.

I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients.

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.

With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of poverty and instead give future generations the opportunities they need to rise to their fullest potential.

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse the trash and clippings I produce for mulch. I reuse the rain that falls on my roof, and I reuse the sun that shines on my house for energy. I guess you could call me a strategic opportunist as much as an environmentalist.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.

From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher level, it's really about economies.

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

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.

Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

I do wish to emphasize that in light of the Alibaba deal, Youku Tudou management will remain independent, and we will continue to be open to opportunities for cooperation with other strategic partners going forward.

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around.

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.

When the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived.

Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.

Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.

We are prepared to do what is necessary with respect to strategic reserves,

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

We are poised for breaking away from our competitors in the food industry, ... This strategic growth plan is designed to vault our company into the ranks of the world's renowned consumer goods companies, in terms of financial profile and market multiple.

We are pleased with our continued progress in meeting strategic goals and continue to see good customer flows across many business lines, ... It is clear, however, that the increasingly weak economic environment is making it difficult for our efforts to show up on the bottom line." ()

We are pleased to work with Continental to transition our automotive business to an industry leader focused on bringing innovative solutions to automotive customers worldwide. Motorola is proud of the performance and leadership of our automotive electronics employees who will become a valuable addition to Continental. This transaction positions Motorola for continued success by further sharpening our strategic focus on communications solutions that advance our vision of Seamless Mobility.

We are pleased to be resuming our long and productive partnership with the people and the state of Libya in this strategic asset. This agreement provides a strong basis for us to invest in our aligned goals for increased reserves and production, and in the training and development of our Libyan work force.

We started thinking about licensing of intellectual property, and boom, it (the discussion) got bigger, ... It just started snowballing, building momentum. It just made logical strategic sense.

We believe that our move into this state of the art trading facility will allow us to further our strategic plan of becoming a scale player within the market making and execution services industry.

We believe that ongoing weakness in Ericsson's handset business has been widely anticipated by investors, and it may also prompt management to give further consideration to additional strategic options for the handset division, ... These options could include the sale of the division if some improvement is not seen in the next few quarters.

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

We believe that being positioned in the SSL VPN visionary quadrant is a testament to the core capabilities of Citrix and recognition of the strategic market position that Citrix is taking in this high growth market.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

We've always said we have a number of strategic alternatives that we're looking at...We continue to do that.

To move from uncertainty to certainty we need good strategic research - and fast.

We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.

When we announced agreements with foreign strategic investors, it was made clear that these are subject to regulatory approval. Currently, the approval process is proceeding normally.

We both agreed to upgrade the relationship into a strategic partnership, ... Never has our relationship been more important than today.

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

We're going to look at the last strategic plan and come up with a method for a good strategic plan by the end of the year, with community involvement.

We're going to have to clean the mess up. Somebody's going to have to. We need to get our children out of harm's way. Strategic withdrawal is where it's at.

U.S. Strategic Command did not track any objects for re-entry.

World energy supplies are more than adequate to compensate for any disruption, ... The response by OPEC and major producers like Saudi Arabia, and if needed, our large strategic stockpiles, will ensure that our economy will have the ample supply of energy it needs.

With the market deficit slowly being filled by the big three producers at increasing unit capital cost - greenfield projects are likely to be much harder to justify, highlighting one motivation in the strategic advantage of bringing forward these expansions.

We're going to continue to run this business as well as we can going forward, ... We are reviewing our strategic options, and in the current planning process we're counting on break-even results in 2003.

We're extending our strategic alliance with IBM in order to drive innovation deeper into the marketplace. We think with this alliance our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their business-intelligence and performance-management initiatives.

We're fully committed to our sales process, which the board believes is the best way to deliver full and fair value to all stockholders. We've already attracted interest from potential financial and strategic acquirers and believe that Red Zone's proposed action could concern potential buyers and disrupt the sales process.

We're focusing on markets where we have established a leadership position. We're transitioning out of businesses that are no longer strategic to 3Com's future.

Throughout his career, Dale has achieved an impressive track record of success in developing and implementing strategic plans to create new markets and new revenue streams. He will be instrumental in shaping, architecting, and executing our strategy of driving the storage, distribution and presentation of high definition content in the consumer environment.

Through our strong strategic customer relationships, we've learned that portable consumer storage markets not only require a very small and thin form-factor, but they also require low power storage solutions rugged enough to meet the stringent consumer usability requirements.

With today's appointments, we are leveraging exceptional management talent and experience with two of our most important strategic priorities, namely, the continuing transformation of our direct-selling channel and the building of the Avon brand. These seasoned executives will play critical roles in enabling Avon to unleash the potential of our unique business model.

Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state. We are make (sic) a strategic error. FEMA will not have to answer to the people, we will.

We're still in the information-gathering stage. People like to ask strategic questions about what we're going to do.

We're riding a paradigm shift in how people buy and sell goods, and we need a media services company with a cutting-edge, fresh approach to effectively reaching the consumer. We selected Palisades Media Group because their direct marketing approach combines creative solutions and the strategic thinking of brand marketing, with the added value of partnership marketing and immediate gratification of direct sales. Their expertise will be an integral part of our cutting edge business.

Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners.

We have secured a premium price for a substantial number of our beverages businesses, ... We will retain robust and profitable beverages operations in the U.S.A. and Europe and simultaneously broaden our strategic options for the further development of the company.

We have a strategic opportunity to put the peace process back on track and we cannot afford to lose it,

We have assembled one of the most powerful strategic tennis partnerships possible, and this will ensure that the event stays here for many years to come. We look forward to working with them to improve and enhance this already terrific tournament.

We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,

We have no strategic need to be bigger -- none at all. So there is no reason to engage in major M&A activity.

We have no other alternative. And in spite of all the difficulties we are facing, we have one alternative: to carry on with the peace process. This is our strategic target.

We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.

This was a strategic opportunity that was too good to miss. Cisco was very natural fit for us. I don't think there's an RFID company in the world that would have passed on this opportunity.

What we really want to be able to do now, is to have government and the aviation industry working together right now to find that strategic solution, knowing that there is gridlock and the potential of increased accidents if we don't do something to address the problem today,

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

There are some similar aspects to all these communities. There is a robust economy in a couple of key areas -- tourism is a key driver as well as professional services. We view this as yet another external validation of the strength of the Florida economy and, therefore, the strength of our strategic plan to develop the economy.

There are some petroleum refineries that don't have crude and by allowing them to draw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve they will be able to produce more gasoline.

The only way we can avoid yet higher prices is if President Bush releases supply from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

We decided the time was not right five years ago. Today we see a different scenario. We have a strong United and a vibrant US Air. We are a company in need a strategic network on the East Coast. US Air clearly fills that void.

We hope to make the point that CEOs need to be personally engaged in information security as a strategic issue.

We have restored the volume growth momentum of our domestic beer company. We are in the process of restoring revenue per barrel growth through the implementation of our 2006 price plan, and are working to restore cost stability through a number of cost reduction programs. With our substantial leadership position and competitive advantages in domestic beer and our important strategic positions in key high growth markets internationally, we are confident we will restore our profit growth in 2006(1) and beyond.

The fact that it came up during strategic planning, we decided to research it further.

We shall enhance our strategic relationship with the U.S. through continuing training exercises to sharpen the Filipino soldiers capability to move and communicate to fix and finish off their targets,