Alternative Strategies Quotes

Our policy is not along the same lines as the policy of the United States. It is not because we want it to be different. It is because our thinking is different.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.

A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.

If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

I wanted to demonstrate that Deathstroke does not need to solve every problem with his fists.

As a youngster, you normally have to play. How will you be one of the best not playing?

I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.