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A diversion -- your favourite CI and strategy quotes

A diversion to start the work week -- what are your favourite CI/strategy quotes?

"Skate to where the puck's going, not where it's been."
Walter Gretzky (Wayne's father)

"Fools rush in..."
Alexander Pope

"Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated."
Sun Tzu

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Competitive Intelligence is understanding the Nadir and Zenith of
Zone of Tolerance
A couple of my favorites are:

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast" - I was told this is on the wall at Ford Motor Company's war room

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --George Orwell

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Loose lips, sink ships - Winston Churchill

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Continuity gives us roots
Change gives us branches
Letting us stretch and grow
And reach new heights - Pauline R Kezer

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If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes - Andrea Jung, Avon

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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." Stephen Vincent Benet

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"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions." - Cullen Hightower

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"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack." - Henry Miller

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"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust

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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." - Plutarch

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