"The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works."

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Source : "Competitive Strategy Research's Impact on Practice". Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, 2012.

Constantinos C. Markides

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“There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.”
“There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.”
“People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.”
“Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.”
“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
“There's nothing worse than the one that got away. It haunts you for weeks like a bad dream, eats away at your psyche like a termite on softened wood.”
“I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.”
“In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.”

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