The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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Organizations like those who have set up these protection initiatives are trying to sound the alarm. We want the country prepared to bring these elections systems under heightened scrutiny.
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I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.
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Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
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