#strategy

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid. ↗

— James Buchan

#banking #banks #call #cannot #each

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#administration #conflict #ending #forward #government

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? ↗

— Virgil

#defeated #enemy #strategy #valor #whether

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool. ↗

— James Daly

#going #great #great business #internet #say

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#clocks #get #going #making #our

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#come #counting #expect #generally #home

There's only one growth strategy: work hard. ↗

— William Hague

#hard #only #strategy #work #work hard

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks. ↗

— William Hague

#ask #because #colonel #coming #days

Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#ceo #first #get #people #priority

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling. ↗

— John Cusack

#cameras #exact #exact opposite #exit #exit strategy