Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
Our supreme objective is peace. Our supreme objective is to protect India's interests. We keep making effort toward that objective and sometimes our efforts are successful.
Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.
Attempting to achieve U. S. strategic ends through partnerships with Arab autocracies yields mixed results, at best, in the short term and is cancerous in the longer run….Middle Eastern dictators are neither moderates nor good allies.
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
We should not conduct a war of nerves to achieve strategic ends.
As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
A policy which rules out and all moral purpose except national interest has a fatal lack of what is essential to enduring success.
I can tell you what I'm driven by. I'm driven by what's in Israel's interest.
The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia
We are currently not planning on conquering the world.
If they're committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they're going to be happy with me as their chair. If they're committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.
The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
The aim of war now is not to defeat your enemy – that’s probably impossible – but to change the way he and his supporters think.
Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.
The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.
It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.
Foreign policy strategy requires harmonizing means and ends.
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.
You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.
Terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic used by an enemy in pursuit of a political objective. There will be no final victory against terrorism, but there may be victories that are close enough to final against particular political groups that use terror tactics.
The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
