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quotes[0]='Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you. The differences between you and your competitors are the basis of your advantage. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Bruce Henderson, Founder Boston Consulting Group, HBR 1989</i>'

quotes[1]='However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965, English statesman </i>'

quotes[2]='The best way to predict the future is to create it. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter F. Drucker, American Management Guru </i>'

quotes[3]='Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948, Indian deep thinker and constant experimenter</i>'

quotes[4]='Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Miyamoto Musashi 1584-1645, legendary Japanese swordsman</i>'

quotes[5]='For every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong. <p &nbsp;</p><i>George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950; Irish playwright and critic </i>'

quotes[6]='Imagination is more important than knowledge. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Albert Einstein 1879-1955; German-born American theoretical physicist </i>'

quotes[7]='Drive thy business; let it not drive thee. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790; American writer and statesman </i>'

quotes[8]='Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Plautus 254BC-184 BC, Roman playwright </i>'

quotes[9]='Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[10]='To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[11]='Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? <p &nbsp;</p><i>Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil 70 BC-19 BC, Roman epic, didactic and idyllic poet </i>'

quotes[12]='Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear mirror. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Anita Roddick 1942-, American businesswoman</i>'

quotes[13]='Smart people also learn from their enemies. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Aristophanes 445BC-385BC, Greek poet</i>'

quotes[14]='A wise man also fears a weak enemy. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Publilius Syrus ~100 BC</i>'

quotes[15]='A gladiator makes his plan in the arena (too late). <p &nbsp;</p><i>Seneca 4BC-65AC, Roman writer and moralist</i>'

quotes[16]='The future influences the present just as much as the past. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German poet and philosopher </i>'

quotes[17]='The way to achieve success is first to have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends - wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Aristotle 384BC-322BC, Greek philosopher and scientist, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great </i>'

quotes[18]='What`s the use of running if you are not on the right road. <p &nbsp;</p><i>German proverb </i>'

quotes[19]='Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832, German poet, dramatist and scientist </i>'

quotes[20]='Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Herodotus, 5th century BC, Greek historian </i>'

quotes[21]='The first percept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it was such without a single doubt. <p &nbsp;</p><i>René Descartes 1596-1650, French rationalist philosopher and mathematician </i>'

quotes[22]='There are truths on this side of the Pyrenées which are falsehoods on the other. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592, French essayist </i>'

quotes[23]='Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. <p &nbsp;</p><i>T.H. Huxley 1825-1895, English biologist </i>'

quotes[24]='When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. <p &nbsp;</p><i>`Sherlock Holmes`, Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, English novelist </i>'

quotes[25]='To boldly go where no one has gone before. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Opening phrase of Star Trek, the famous Science Fiction Series </i>'

quotes[26]='To plan, v. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American columnist </i>'

quotes[27]='It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Epictetus c. 60-120, Roman philosopher </i>'

quotes[28]='Those who triumph compute at their headquarters a great number of factors prior to a challenge. Little computation brings defeat. How much more so with no computation at all! <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[29]='It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British prime minister and writer </i>'

quotes[30]='The processes used to arrive at the total strategy are typically fragmented, evolutionary, and largely intuitive. <p &nbsp;</p><i>James Quinn in Strategic Change: Logical Incrementalism, 1978 </i>'

quotes[31]='However good our futures research may be, we shall never be able to escape from the ultimate dilemma that all our knowledge is about the past, and all our decisions are about the future. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Ian Wilson, American scenario planning expert and strategy consultant </i>'

quotes[32]='What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British prime minister and novelist </i>'

quotes[33]='No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Epictetus c. 60-120, Roman philosopher </i>'

quotes[34]='Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. <p &nbsp;</p><i>William Shakespeare 1564-1616, English dramatist </i>'

quotes[35]='One does not gain much by mere cleverness. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Marquis de Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French moralist </i>'

quotes[36]='Sell where you can, you are not for all markets. <p &nbsp;</p><i>William Shakespeare 1564-1616, English dramatist </i>'

quotes[37]='Whoever is winning at the moment will allways seem to be invincible. <p &nbsp;</p><i>George Orwell 1903-1950, English novelist </i>'

quotes[38]='We are not all capable of everything. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Virgil 70-19BC, Roman philosopher </i>'

quotes[39]='How many senior executives discuss the crucial distinction between competitive strategy at the level of a business and competitive strategy at the level of an entire company? <p &nbsp;</p><i>C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel, in their article: The core competence of the corporation, 1990 </i>'

quotes[40]='Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other`s pocket that they cannot seperately plunder a third. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American columnist </i>'

quotes[41]='We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal, and those interests it is our duty to follow. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Lord Palmerston 1784-1865, British prime minister </i>'

quotes[42]='The strong one is most powerful alone. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Friedrich von Schiller 1759-1805, German writer </i>'

quotes[43]='Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. <p &nbsp;</p><i>William Shakespeare 1564-1616, English dramatist and poet </i>'

quotes[44]='Know the other and know thyself: Triumph without peril. Know nature and know the situation: Triumph completely. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[45]='The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Plutarch 46-120, Greek biographer and philospher </i>'

quotes[46]='How many things are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Pliny the Elder 23-79, Roman writer </i>'

quotes[47]='I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, sixteenth American president </i>'

quotes[48]='There is always a better strategy than the one you have; you just haven`t thought of it yet. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sir Brian Pitman, former CEO of Lloyds TSB, Harvard Business Review, April 2003 </i>'

quotes[49]='The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken account in one`s deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field. These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons. Earth compromises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage and strictness. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[50]='Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy`s troups without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overtrows their kingdom without lenghty operations in the field. With his forces intact he wil dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without loosing a man, his triumph wil be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[51]='Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[52]='The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Irving L. Janis, behavioral scientist, in Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost (1971) </i>'

quotes[53]='Uncertainty is not a result of ignorance or the partiality of human knowledge, but is a characteristic of the world itself. <p &nbsp;</p><i>M. Taylor in The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture, 2001 </i>'

quotes[54]='We not only need complex, organic views of organizations, but we would benefit from not being put off by either the complexity or its mysteries. <p &nbsp;</p><i>J. Ralls and K. Webb in The Nature of Chaos in Business, 1999 </i>'

quotes[55]='In some mergers there truly are synergies - though often times the acquirer pays too much for them - but at other times the cost and revenue benefits that are projected prove illusory. Of one thing, however, be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Warren Buffet 1930-, American investment entrepreneur </i>'

quotes[56]='Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strenght. What is malleable is always superior to that what is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Lao Tzu c.604BC-531BC, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism </i>'

quotes[57]='Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sir John Harvey-Jones, Former CEO of ICI </i>'

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