Strategy Quotations | Page 3

We're profitable and have the potential to be very profitable, ... We generate cash from operations of over $1 billion per quarter. We have $19 billion in cash and equivalents in an industry that is in debt. We've gained more market share than we've ever gained in this last quarter. We've got the customer loyalty and strategy for where the industry's going, which is combining networks for service providers and enterprises. So I'm very optimistic about our future if we execute right.

My vision for the future of the BBC has three parts: a bold new program and content strategy based above all around the idea of excellence; a transformation of the BBC into a state-of-the art digital broadcaster; and an irreversible shift in the culture of the BBC toward simplicity, opportunity and creativity,

My strategy embraces Microsoft and includes them in everything I do,

My strategy from Day One was to reconstruct the traditional base of the Democratic Party: labor, working families and agriculture, and the legal community. We have taken labor for granted. We think getting the endorsement of the union leader means you get the votes.

My strategy is not to let the girl, if there is someone in front of me, not let her get more than maybe five steps ahead of me. That'd make it difficult to catch up to her. Mainly, it's strive.

My strategy is, right is right, and wrong is wrong. If you know your drug may kill people, you owe the duty to warn them.

My strategy is sprinting. I guess I'm just trying to beat myself.

My strategy is to stay with companies that are executing well despite the negative tech backdrop. At some point tech is going to recover and these are the companies you'll want to be in.

My strategy is to try to coax out of those guys who they think is going to be in the Final Four, and with that, it puts two of their players kinda out there.

My strategy was to stay ahead of Michael in the first 100m, then pull away. That's what I did.

My strategy was to take it at them strong because she (Davenport) is not going to block everything. I basically tried to go out there and play with no fear, because if you're afraid of them that's when you're going to start making little mistakes.

My strategy was to take it at them strong. She's not going to block all of them. I just tried to play with no fear because if you're afraid of them you start making little mistakes.

I was with the president initially. His exit strategy is weak.

Long-term archival storage remains the realm of magnetic tape libraries. Today there is no truly cost-effective ILM strategy without a tape component.

Some guys don't think it's time to question our government, but the fact is I love my country, ... We need to have an exit strategy now.

That ended up being a great lap, ... It didn't fee as if it was going to be a top time, but we'll take it.so, all in all, I am excited. I don't know what to expect for the race really, but I know my Lowe's guys are going to work their butts off with great stops and great strategy and we'll be there when it counts.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

Recycling what has worked in the past is a defensive strategy that is working, and it has reversed sales declines for the retailer.

Red Hat's experience and core strategy of open collaboration made them a natural fit with this project. Open source and Linux will both reach and engage people in the rest of the world.

Reducing staff seems to have become a central part of the executive board's strategy to improve efficiency...and we don't accept this.

Staying the course is not an option, ... President Bush has failed to provide either a strategy for success or a convincing record of political and military progress.

Our outlook for the balance of the year remains quite cautious as we continue to face the uncertain economic environment, and as we rebound from the Sept. 11 event, ... Our team remains focused on maximizing our operating performance in this challenging retail environment by executing our customer focus strategy while appropriately adjusting operating expenses, inventory and capital spending.

Our partnership with Costco is a giant step forward in our strategy to increase retail coverage and charge volume and to expand the number of customers we serve.

Our report finds that there is a gap between policies leadership says it respects on paper, and behavior it actually tolerates in practice. That's not a way to stop torture from occurring, and it's not a winning strategy in the fight against terror.

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

Part of their strategy has to involve closure of some of those stores.

Part of the strategy is keeping the rhetoric up to remind the Syrians that they are not out of the box yet and that Lebanese democracy has the full support of the Western powers.

Partners like Food Lion are national leaders in energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence winners are true models for improving energy efficiency across the country. They have shown year after year that energy efficiency is good for business and helps consumers save important resources, all while protecting the environment. Food Lion embraces a superior energy management strategy that is a model for all businesses.

Pat's long career as an information technology innovator, combined with his experience in public affairs and business, will add significant insight and expertise to Career Education as we pursue our long-term strategy of expanding access to quality education and career opportunities in the U.S. and abroad.

Organizations have spent millions capturing, analyzing and applying customer intelligence with the goal of growing revenues by increasing focus on customer-centric strategy and execution. We believe forward thinking organizations will continue to invest in select technology enablers, process development, performance measurement capabilities and services that empower them to apply customer intelligence towards better decision-making in support of more profitable growth.

Our qualifying positions cost us the result, ... but we tried a very different strategy today to try to make up some places.

Our operating income is showing progress. Yet, it does not reflect the group's growth potential. That is why in 2006, we will strengthen our focused growth strategy and strengthen our cost-reduction efforts.

Our main priority is to confirm the Lisbon strategy (a program for broad economic reform in Europe) should be implemented.

Our main strategy is to secure America's borders.

Our manufacturing strategy execution continues to be flawless. The increased capacity provided by Fab 36 will contribute to our goal of doubling total production by 2008.

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

Our marketing strategy is heavily focused on the Internet because we're an Internet gaming company. We're rolling our marketing plan out in phases. It starts slow then builds as our player base increases.

Our media strategy was twofold: target both the college & minor league baseball fan through strategic baseball partnerships with Rawlings, Easton etc; as well, we invested significantly behind online media to target the baseball gamer and baseball fan.

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Part of our strategy is to become the premiere entertainment site on the Web.

Peaceful development means that China is to develop itself through working for a peaceful international environment and in return, promote world peace through its own development.Open development means China will persist with its opening-up strategy and continue to improve the investment environment and open up its market. Cooperative development means China is to broaden its exchanges and cooperation with the rest world and work with others to resolve difficulties and differences that arise in cooperation and try its best to achieve mutual benefits and a win-win result.

Paul Martin's softwood strategy is backwards and is designed to spin the Canadian electorate rather than end the dispute. His long overdue call to President Bush is better late than never, however, I am concerned that his recent actions have threatened any potential progress in resolving the softwood dispute.

People have been using a rotational strategy -- but eventually you'll have a peaceful coexistence between the two because the 'old economy' stocks will have very good relative earnings that people can attach to,

Oracle has done an excellent job integrating PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, not only into their overall corporate support structure, but also their Fusion application strategy as well.

Oracle is executing very well. This validates that Oracle is a leader in consolidating the software sector. The strategy they are embarking upon is the right strategy.

Our mitigation strategy was the realignment of the road. We need to back up and start all over with a new strategy. Otherwise, I don't feel any level of comfort.

I saw Scott missed his putt at 18 and that dictated my strategy on 18. I knew I could three-putt and that's what I did. It's very gratifying to come to a place like this and win.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

I was a little confused too. But maybe his strategy was to race the two contenders hard and maybe the caution would come out in the process.

I think Sun's primary business strategy these days is to try and file as many court cases against Microsoft as possible. I think our only point is that Sun should try and focus on making their technology work and less on trying to bring new lawsuits against Microsoft.

I think the race was won on the first turn. From there on it was a matter of the strategy and a question of how hard you can push.

J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path, but we think J&J is taking a big risk with its strategy and that (Guidant) has more leverage than most believe.

Jefferson-Pilot's disciplined pricing strategy and low-cost administrative platform represent significant competitive advantages relative to its peers,

Japan is a very important market for our global strategy and launching our console ahead of rival platforms will give us certain advantage.

Japan is closed today so the market is taking the U.S. as a reference. But there's not much activity because investors are taking a wait-and-see strategy ahead of Greenspan's speech.

Our growth strategy is twofold. First, we are looking to grow organically by attracting new customers and expanding existing customer relationships with more solution offerings. Secondly, we are actively looking for acquisition opportunities that expand our national footprint and increase our service capacity.

Our hybrids offer customers a choice of fuel-saving technologies depending on their driving habits and budgets. Our hybrid strategy delivers on GM's commitment to apply advanced fuel-saving technologies where we will realize the most fuel savings.

Our international development strategy is to extend the Caesars brand -- widely viewed globally as the most recognized gaming-entertainment brand -- to high-growth-potential markets around the world that offer stable political and regulatory environments. Our international plans are an extension of our domestic development strategy, which also focuses on expansion in stable jurisdictions.

Our Internet Services strategy is designed to provide a value-added service for broadband, which is a key source of growth for the company.

Our investment strategy is to stay on interest rate sensitive stocks in the first half of this year.

Our impressive list of recent wins in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, India and China further solidify our leadership position. With the new strategy and appointments we expect to be more agile and accelerate the growth of the company.

Our integrated marketing and retail strategy aimed to put the Guardian in the hands of as many people as possible and encourage them to re-appraise the paper. We succeeded. We look forward to the October ABC with confidence.

Our intention is to support the company and its management in executing a strategy of long-term value creation for all stakeholders in a collaborative environment.

Our kicking strategy is also a collective thing. There are a number of individuals that can perform that role.

Peak hunting periods coincide with dry season drought months, as vegetation is less dense and wildlife searching for watering holes are easier to hunt and locate. Hence supply peaks during times of hardship and constitutes an important drought and famine coping strategy for the majority in the rural areas surveyed.

Management is doing the right thing. You don't want to change the driver of the horse when the strategy is clearly appropriate.

Management has developed a good knack of over delivering on its strategy so far and that gives us significant confidence going forwards.

Johnson orchestrated numerous strategic acquisitions to expand the presence of Hormel Foods, most notably The Turkey Store. He refined the company's marketing strategy to significantly advance the sale of value-added products, and established Hormel Foods as a significant player in the ethnic foods marketplace,

I think the strategy of engaging labor is really the only strategy there is.

It is exactly the strategy of the terrorists to create a vacuum of disorder and lawlessness, and the way to do that is to attempt to eliminate precisely the dedicated civil servants like the prime minister, the president and the senior members of the interim government.

It is crucial that we time our new products ahead of major events. My biggest challenge is whether our sales strategy will be strong enough to compete with bigger rivals on a global scale.

Just because a fund has 'dividend growth' or 'rising dividends' in the name doesn't mean it's strictly following a strategy of buying stocks that have increased their dividend. Study the strategy of each fund and understand the portfolio.

I think that was a great strategy decision by Coach Williams to put the fresh guys out there and get something going.

It is for us part of our strategy of ubiquity of being everywhere the viewers are. If they're not at home in front of their TV, we want them to get it as quickly as possible.

I think the DC is in a position to benefit for the shortage, ... Sega's key strategy now is to identify Dreamcast with online gaming ... If Sega can get that grounded, then I think the Dreamcast is in a position to stick around for a long time.

I think the DC is in a position to benefit for the shortage. Sega's key strategy now is to identify Dreamcast with online gaming ... If Sega can get that grounded, then I think the Dreamcast is in a position to stick around for a long time.

I think the deployment strategy we have right now for our ambulances isn't the optimum model. The current system we have is a very good one, but with the status quo there is a problem in the outlying areas. If you have a critical emergency in some spots in the county you could be waiting a long time and in some cases, that could be too long.

It is important to retain our strategic relationship with Hughes, ... We continue to create new communications capabilities and functionality in our vehicles. Hughes has redefined itself as a premier provider of digital entertainment and business communications, which strengthens its ability to contribute to GM's strategy to grow its service-oriented businesses.

It is important to retain our strategic relationship with Hughes. We continue to create new communications capabilities and functionality in our vehicles. Hughes has redefined itself as a premier provider of digital entertainment and business communications, which strengthens its ability to contribute to GM's strategy to grow its service-oriented businesses.

Last year in the spring it was an alternator belt that broke when we were leading that took us out of contention, and then in the fall last year we were leading at the end before fuel strategy cost us the win. But Richmond is a terrific racetrack.

It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.

It is a very, very important issue and, as we try to communicate all the time, it has been and remains at the top of our concerns, ... Just because we don't get the notoriety of having a Prius doesn't mean we don't have a comprehensive strategy in the area of fuel economy.

I think the two players that have surprised me the most are Megan Rooney and Lisa McManus. Both have shown tremendous improvement in their games since last year and both have good court strategy and competitiveness that has helped them this season.

I think they are making substantial changes, but the strategy is not risk free, ... One of the central problems with Sara Lee's valuation is this is a company where a number of their brands are relatively small in the scheme of things. Investors are concerned that small brands are more vulnerable over time.

I think the season is done. I don't see how this can be resolved next September. Their strategy is to break the will of the union and impose a salary cap and I don't think that's going to work. I'm convinced there won't even be a training camp next year. They are going to try to delay this as much as possible. We are telling players who want to play in Europe to get ready and find work over there.

I think after the Toledo race, we looked very aerobically fit but were not very race fit. We still ran pretty fast after Toledo, but we still had things to work on. Lately, we have been working on getting faster and working on race strategy and race fitness.

Reorganizations are never easy. They inevitably mean change. The reorganization ... was essential to better position us to further the president's strategy against WMD proliferation and (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's) emphasis on transformational diplomacy.

Retailers play a vital role in our success and we aim to offer them unprecedented support. In addition to our above the line activity we have worked closely with our sales promotion agency, 141 Worldwide, to develop a strong retail strategy and provide retailers with an extensive range of bespoke point of sale material.

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Our acquisition strategy is very clear: 3x3. Three continents - Asia, Africa and South America, and in three categories where we have strong positions - personal wash, household care and hair care.

Over the last 10 or 15 years, there's almost been a deliberate strategy to push all the tough decisions to the very end of a Congress, with the hope that you can ram them through as members try to get away for the holidays.

Over the past 12 months, we've done an exhaustive review on future strategy and growth strategy, and I'm confident Nike Inc.'s strategy is the right one. We will get some wind in the sails and create some energy for this company.

Our go-to-market strategy continues to be effective as March Networks delivers yet another quarter of sequential growth. March Networks is focused on delivering innovative products, great service, and outstanding sales execution. These financial results are a direct result of that unwavering focus.

Our pricing strategy is no different than what we said earlier in the quarter, ... We said early in the first quarter we're going to take back the low end. This is consistent with what we said in early January.

Our principal strategy is to build on the borough's strengths, ... We really believe that this will help make Queens an overall better place to live, to work, to visit.

Outside the UK, now half Kingfisher's sales and profits, strong growth continues and we are making good progress with our strategy of strengthening our position in major markets.

out from underneath Ma Bell's skirt, able to continue to expand and pursue their growth strategy without having a big mother looking over.

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Our troops and the American people need the president to pay more than just lip service to a strategy for the war in Iraq, they need him to lay out what that strategy is with clear markers by which success can be measured,