Targeted Approach Quotes

He who defends everything defends nothing.

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats

I don’t want to spread myself out to other games that don’t have the passion… You know, like the Aliens game.

Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Address the people you seek, and them only

Officers who use stop and search appropriately, with reasonable grounds and in a targeted and intelligence-led way, will always have my full support.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

Our targeted methods change depending on who you are as an individual, not a model representation of an individual.

What we're doing in San Francisco and what we're doing with other criminal justice partners across the state and across the country is anything but indiscriminate. We are being careful. We are being focused and surgical in our efforts to decrease the jail population.

Take the time to match your application to the company and the role you're applying for. Even if it means you're sending out fewer applications overall, I think that can be really powerful.

I decided that I was going to stop trying to convince older, more established heads of studios or networks to understand me and get me, and focus more on developing relationships with people who already do.

Robust activity on one site is so much better than halfhearted activity on multiple sites.

First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.