Strategies Quotations

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.

There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.

The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum investments, redemption restrictions and aggressive strategies make them suitable mainly for more sophisticated and well-heeled investors.

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

With liberalisation, Indian industry gained international exposure because of which it became imperative for companies to rework their strategies to become globally competitive.

One of the primary strategies to close the achievement gap is to provide high-quality teachers to students who need them most, and that's precisely what our recommendations are about. Right now those students aren't getting the highest-quality teachers, and until the district addresses that, it will continue to have an achievement gap.

One of their fundamental strategies was the same as ours - to move into businesses that were fee-driven and not so capital-intensive, and that is managing hotels instead of owning them.

On the bright side, we see satisfaction with Transaction Costs increasing slightly, which is a departure from last year. This shows that retailers are exceeding customer expectations with their pricing strategies for both products and shipping. If online retailers can manage expectations and maintain overall satisfaction during this last week, they should continue to gain value from the holiday shopping season.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

One of Midway's core in-game advertising strategies is to infuse our games with cultural context through the integration of static in-game product placements. We believe static promotions in conjunction with dynamic advertising will represent an attractive revenue opportunity for Midway. Sarah is arguably one of our industry's most experienced professionals in this emerging field, and we anticipate that she will manage the process for static ads as well as dynamic in-game ads with Double Fusion in an effort to maximize incremental revenue from our top titles.

possible practical measures and strategies for complete disarmament.

New services reflect the changing demographics of bank customers and banks' are adopting new strategies for retaining core deposits. The first baby boomers will turn 65 in 2011, and by 2030, one in five Americans is expected to be 65 or older. Add the trend toward increased equity ownership, and it's hardly surprising that more than half of the bankers expect to offer brokerage services (61%) and half will offer mutual funds (50%) in the next three years.

My first priority will be to maintain continuing with the policy and policy strategies under the Greenspan era.

If we come out and are ready to play, we'll have just as good an opportunity in our district to win it. It's all about the kids working hard. We're giving them the tools and strategies and getting them to work hard, but it comes down to them. We're not where we want to be.

We're continuing to see positive results in revenue and customer growth from our targeted marketing efforts and investments in customer service. Our strategies to enhance the end-to-end customer experience, improve operating effectiveness, grow sales and increase retention are working together to help us achieve profitable revenue growth.

Mr. Stein relied on the hard work and advice of the tax experts who approved the strategies at issue and continues to have no reason to doubt the validity of the tax advice he ultimately provided.

Moderate strategies in the past had moderate results.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Guidelines for bone health maintenance have been developed. Practical strategies and algorithms designed to monitor bone health with interventions -- once established and widely implemented -- offer the potential to abrogate this increased fracture risk.

There are so many strategies that the arts teaches as far as higher-level thinking. To take kids out of the arts is kind of like taking a child out of science to do math.

Fundamental strategies are needed on the domestic scene while in our relations with the world we need to proceed with authority,

Futures are not for everyone, but with major stock indexes flat to down over the past five-year period, even buy-and-hold equity strategies have risks. With the recent activity in foreign exchange rates and commodities such as oil and metals, we anticipate even more investors will look at futures in the coming year.

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Gillette's financial turnaround is under way, ... We're confident we have the right strategies in place to guide out businesses in the future.

I am excited to be involved in this major effort bringing together financial institutions, technology vendors, and consulting organizations. I am confident that my years of experience in the development and implementation of business and technology strategies will be an asset to this dynamic organization.

I encourage students to really research each of the schools. The bottom line is that they really need to research and look at the entire package. There might be some surprises, and some strategies they will like. In this case, the student is the consumer. The ball is in their court.

Business intelligence continues its proliferation across the enterprise and we have witnessed the evolution as BI has made its way out of the back office and onto the shop floor, the home office, and the sales field. For the past 30 years we have provided customers with cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies to support organizational success. The advent of portable business intelligence builds on our pioneering spirit and commitment to customer requirements.

We've got to get their strategies in line with out strategies and we can all benefit. It is a concern for us.

We must critically analyze risk factors and causes of the problem, ... We must introduce and evaluate strategies of intervening for preventing suicide, and then we must implement the programs widely and continue to evaluate them.

Having a combined Strategic Planning and Business Development function will give us greater ability to leverage our focused business strategies and capitalize on market opportunities. Tom's broader responsibilities will further enhance his team's effectiveness in identifying future strategic opportunities. Our record results for 2005 underline the significant progress we have made in realigning the division, streamlining processes and strengthening the business. These two appointments mark a very positive step in the development of Deutsche Asset Management.

He has a tendency to want to prescribe what he wants states to do and to penalize them when they don't do it. We work very closely with him on strategies that will improve safety but are acceptable to the states.

His straight talk was a wake-up call. Practical energy strategies are doable and those strategies will conserve our oceans. We must act now.

He has the contacts and the time to move us forward. There will be a learning curve for him like there is for any first year coach, but we're going to focus on strategies that are effective here.

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Many hedge fund strategies saw strong returns during the first quarter. Strong trends across a number of asset classes, low market volatility, and an increase in global M&A activity are among the key return drivers so far this year.

Marketers trying to grow their business over the next 10 years can either target the stagnant 18-49 segment, or they can develop strategies to appeal to the fast-growing 50-plus segment.

Look for the U.S. to use a variety of strategies to try to veto consensus.

Some of these strategies have been around for a while. What we've gotten really good at is tailoring the strategies to the individual person.

State Street Global Advisors is honored to be recognized among the elite financial institutions in the world. Our leadership in providing institutional investors worldwide with a wide variety of sophisticated strategies designed to meet their goals distinguishes us as a trusted partner for asset management.

Steve is a seasoned business executive who will be a valuable addition to our Board. We are confident that his experience and insights from many years in executive leadership, and his commitment to educational excellence will prove helpful in guiding the company as it executes its strategies for growth and value creation for shareholders in the for-profit education sector.

Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Our partnership with KLC will help us efficiently implement our business strategies for the Algerian market. KLC has a very impressive track record, and boasts a distribution channel known for its wide reach and efficiency.

Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.

Our marketing strategy encompasses young people as well as adults and we do that through various media and marketing strategies that cross all demographics.

I will make continuity with the policies and policy strategies of the Greenspan Fed a top priority,

Janet Corrigan is the ideal person to lead the newly reconstituted NQF. She has extensive experience working with diverse leaders across the public and private sectors, and a track record in developing widespread consensus around strategies to move the quality agenda forward.

January performance was the strongest since May 2003. Unusually strong equity market volatility and narrowing credit spreads created an exceptional trading environment for many hedge fund managers. The VIX, a measure of equity market volatility, jumped more than 21% to 14.56 after the January 20 stock market close, the biggest one-day percentage jump in nine months. Most hedge fund strategies require volatility to produce meaningful returns.

Just 30 minutes after our principals got the results, they were already developing strategies to yield better scores. This is stuff that will be fun, exciting and encouraging.

It is clear, now that we can recruit only donors willing to be identified, that we need to change our strategies to target men in established relationships.

I think the Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt, more important lately, they've show us how incompetent (they are) and how they have been divided. I think those are important themes and strategies for us as we go forward.

Other teams are keying in on him, setting whole defensive strategies around him. That's presenting opportunities for other people to step up. It's amazing. It seems like every game, it's someone different.

Parents are out there who want to help, they're just not sure about what they should do. And teachers have told us that establishing a stronger line of communication with the parents is something they'd like to do, but again, they aren't sure what the best strategies are.

Our priority will always be customer-focused innovation that provides real value for our students and ultimately increases value for our shareholders. By understanding our diverse group of students and their needs, we can successfully target our strategies and ensure that we maximize our investment in innovation and service.

Our solid fourth quarter performance reflects our ongoing ability to execute consistent strategies for generating top-line growth, controlling costs and improving operational efficiency. We were successful in delivering a strong cash quarter as a result of our sharp focus on working capital improvements, particularly in accounts receivables and inventory reduction.

Our strategies are really starting to take hold, and you can see it in our financial and operational results this quarter.

Our strategies have to reflect a certain amount of hedging our bets. One of the things we do know is that they care about things other than just how much damage they do to us.

Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.

Our commitment to our customers extends beyond a software solution and includes providing a forum for sharing and learning best practices in e-commerce. We've put together a compelling line-up of topics that are particularly relevant to enterprises that want to create the most customer-centric shopping experience possible, develop profitable strategies for 2006 and beyond, and hear experts' views on e-commerce.

Our best opportunity to build shareholder value is to have fewer priorities and to pursue them with greater intensity. We have applied that thinking to both our strategies and our portfolio. This action reflects the company's continued commitment to brands which have the ability to achieve sustainable national market leadership and a high potential to achieve significant and consistent growth in share, revenue, and return on capital.

I think political strategies now are in agreement that the public doesn't want a big huge change on anything, whether its health care or the contract with the gold standard.

I think that my job is more to set direction, define objectives and develop strategies for reaching them, ... One takes account of the various constituencies in both shaping that agenda and persuading people about it, but if the primary goal were just balancing off the different interests of people, that would make the job pretty uninteresting.

We now see more and more of these Old Economy-New Economy hybrids cutting their online staffs, ... Companies that were hoping, if not expecting to eventually shift the lion's share of their business to the Internet may be forced to consider entirely new strategies for both short term and long term.

Threats do not begin or end in a single country, ... must focus on common strategies and common systems of protection.

to maintain continuity with the policy and policy strategies under the Greenspan era.

Typically a company will look at acquisition strategies when their growth starts to slow but there's no slowing down at Dell.

We are committed to continued expense management and strategies to improve productivity in 2006. Execution in these two important areas should contribute to the achievement of our goal of improving operating margins by 50 to 150 basis points for the year.

The arrival of Tiffany is a significant event for The Fashion Mall and indeed, the entire Indianapolis retail community, ... It again validates one of our core strategies - that the world's greatest retailers want to be at truly preeminent retail properties.

We have ample legal strategies to address these things, at least locally.

We're working proactively to develop conservation strategies to help the blackbird bounce back before it reaches crisis stage.

We have central banks that are trying to frame exit strategies from unusually accommodative conditions.

The above strategies have helped to improve the gross profit of the group and helped to maintain average selling prices of products, further consolidating the group's leading position in the market.

Microsoft has an unparalleled wave of innovation coming this year that will create immense opportunity for our partners. We are very focused on working together with our partners to build their businesses and to increase their profitability, so the Partner Summit gives us the perfect platform to discuss our partner programs and strategies for vertical sectors and to give partners a taste of the upcoming products.

The 11.5 times multiple -- which is two full turns higher than the 9.5 times multiple we paid for the whole of Knight Ridder -- demonstrates that these are strong newspapers with great value to companies whose strategies fit them.

Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.

While (Best Buy) may look like the relative underperformer this quarter, we believe their strategies will prove more fruitful long term, especially as (Wal-Mart) gets aggressive.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

Whether it's domestic violence, gang violence, attempted suicide, accidental shooting, or something else, intervention strategies will be personalized. We're looking at this from a public health perspective as a health epidemic.

We continue to execute the final stages of our repositioning strategies aimed at regaining financial strength.

While we've been arguing in the Philippines (as to who is at fault), business-oriented producers, consolidators, shippers and transport companies in Singapore, Malaysia and China have been developing strategies to efficiently compete in global markets, ... They're winning; we're losing.

WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.

We entered fiscal 2006 with a focused set of strategies and optimism that during the year we would begin to recognize results from our prior year's initiatives.

The real challenge lies not in debating whether disparities exist, because the evidence is overwhelming, but in developing and implementing strategies to reduce and eliminate them,

There are natural synergies to be gained by more closely aligning our corporate and technology strategy work. I believe combining the two roles will help to drive our strategies forward and effectively meet the needs of our customers.

We did not aim to survey or list individual sites but to provide estimates based on available information, such as old Ordnance Survey maps and local authority land records. The information should assist in considering the progress being made in tackling land contamination, and in the development of policy and strategies at a local, regional and national level.

We have a number of strategies that we haven't disclosed yet. The focus will clearly be on the consumer.

There is no doubt that the hard work of the Johnson staff and district staff as we implement new teaching and learning strategies is at the heart of this recognition, ... We are very proud of Johnson Elementary and our staff, and we fully anticipate that we will see more success as we move forward.