"You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success."

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Source : "The Big Lie of Strategic Planning". Article by Roger Martin, hbr.org. January - February 2014.

Roger Martin

#Odds Quotes #Choices Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in the music industry. It's really tough to get a leg up and navigate around your gender and stereotypes. You feel hopeless, [but] all of that disappears the minute that I start writing a song. Then I record something and have that magical feeling. You have to have the negative and the positive. Trying to own that and go to that place in yourself creatively is the most important thing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.”
“Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.”
“What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.”
“Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.”
“The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative”
“My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.”

Source : "More than just the next superstar - Ovechkin's zest for life contagious with Capitals". The Record (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada), October 27, 2006.
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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