"The single most damaging misconception about strategy is that it is a set of financial performance goals. The so-called "strategies" created by many managements are nothing more than three-to-five year financial performance forecasts. They are then labeled "strategy" and shipped off to the board of directors which goes through the motions of discussing how big the numbers are. Strategy is not your aspirations. Strategy is concerned with how you will arrange your actions and resources to punch through the challenges you face."

-- Richard P. Rumelt

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“The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press
“I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.”
“I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.”
“We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.”

Source : Press Secretary Josh Earnest's press briefing, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 5, 2015.
“Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.”
“Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby.”

Source : Song: Hopeless, Album: The Red Light District
“I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.”
“Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.”

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