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Strategy

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Master Strategist2 credits
Sun Tzu

You ask the wrong question. The victorious army wins first, then goes to war; the defeated army fights first and seeks victory…

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Master of the Decisive Point2 credits
Napoleon Bonaparte

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe? A man of no name does not become Emperor by waiting for permission.

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Steppe Empire Conqueror2 credits
Genghis Khan

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I began with less than your savings, a boy eating marmots on the ice, and I did not play safe, I moved fast where the enemy was…

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Sun Tzu's Art of War2 credits
The Strategist

Neither. The question itself is rash. First know the ground: who buys, who competes, what the timing favors.

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Purpose-Driven CEO2 credits
Indra Nooyi

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

First, assume positive intent. Your team did not slip because they stopped caring, they slipped because something in the plan was…

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Paranoid Operator2 credits
Andy Grove

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Ask the question you are afraid to ask. If a stranger walked into your life today, with your savings and your idea, what would he…

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Big Bet Dealmaker2 credits
Bob Iger

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

The riskiest thing you can do is take no risk at all. I bet the company on Pixar in my first months as CEO, and I launched…

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Standard Oil Titan2 credits
John D. Rockefeller

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

The question assumes haste, and haste is how fortunes are lost.

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Do Your Job Coach2 credits
Bill Belichick

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

It is what it is. The date slipped. Feeling bad about it doesn't block anybody.

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Total Football Architect2 credits
Johan Cruyff

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Playing safe is also a bet, only it's a bet against yourself.

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The Great One2 credits
Wayne Gretzky

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take, and I mean that plainly, not as a poster.

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Songwriter & Era Strategist2 credits
Taylor Swift

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I'm the wrong person to ask for play it safe, because every good thing I have came from a bet somebody told me not to make.

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Five-Moves-Ahead Strategist2 credits
Patrick Bet-David

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Let me ask you a question. Have you run the numbers on who you actually are?

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Chess Teacher & Blunder Analyst2 credits
GothamChess

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

This is Guess the Elo for your life, so let's evaluate the position honestly.

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Disruption Theorist2 credits
Clayton Christensen

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

May I ask a gentler question first. What job was the launch date hired to do?

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Father of Management2 credits
Peter Drucker

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You are asking the wrong question. Safe or bold is temperament; the real question is, who is the customer, and what does he…

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Power Dynamics Strategist2 credits
Robert Greene

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You are asking the wrong question. The greatest danger is not the bet but entering it blind to power realities.

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Unfiltered Power Strategist4 credits
Robert Greene

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Let me be blunt: your hesitation disgusts the part of you that had the idea.

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Rome's Nightmare General2 credits
Hannibal Barca

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You ask the wrong question. Safe and bold are the enemy's categories.

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Undefeated Sword Saint2 credits
Miyamoto Musashi

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You hold the question like a man clutching one sword. Fix nothing.

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Last Pharaoh of Egypt2 credits
Cleopatra

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Wrong question. Safety is not a strategy, it is merely a slower defeat.

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Conqueror of Rome2 credits
Julius Caesar

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I was born to an old name and an empty purse, and I ran up debts that should have ruined me to buy the love of Rome.

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Deadwood Camp Boss2 credits
Al Swearengen

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe is a bedtime story hoopleheads tell themselves while the camp gets carved up around them.

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Washington Power Broker2 credits
Frank Underwood

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I never get in a war I cannot count the votes for. So count them.

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Underworld CEO2 credits
Stringer Bell

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Ain't a bet if you done the math. First question is demand, elastic or inelastic.

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Corner Office Kingpin4 credits
Stringer Bell

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Man, that ain't even the right question. Safe or bet, that's how a corner boy thinks.

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Peaky Blinders Boss2 credits
Tommy Shelby

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I never gamble on anything I haven't already fixed. So fix it.

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Silver-Tongued Strategist2 credits
Tyrion Lannister

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I once bet my life on a sellsword's mood and a trial by combat, so consider the source.

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Dynasty Builder2 credits
Tywin Lannister

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You are asking the wrong question. Safety and gambling are both the habits of small men.

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Prodigy at the Board2 credits
Beth Harmon

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Play the player, and the player here is you. A bold idea with no preparation is just a blunder that hasn't happened yet.

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Queen of the Seven Kingdoms2 credits
Cersei Lannister

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe. There is no safe. When you play this game you win or you die, and the ones who hedge politely die slowest and poorest.

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The Firm's Fulcrum2 credits
Donna Paulsen

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Neither, because you are asking the wrong question. The question is timing.

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Velvet-Steel Managing Partner2 credits
Jessica Pearson

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You are asking me to choose between fear and recklessness, and I decline both.

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The Godfather2 credits
Vito Corleone

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Come closer, my friend. A man has but one destiny, and if this idea is yours, playing it safe will only teach you regret.

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The Don2 credits
Michael Corleone

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Sentiment is asking the question. Arithmetic answers it. Never bet money whose loss changes who you are, that is how men become…

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The Man Who Doesn't Exist2 credits
Keyser Soze

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You are asking the wrong question. Safe versus bold is the story people tell afterward.

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The Inevitable Titan2 credits
Thanos

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

The safe path is how Titan died. Everyone can see the opportunity; only a few possess the will to pay for it.

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Long Game Incarnate2 credits
Emperor Palpatine

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Play it safe, my boy? Safety is what I sold the Senate while I took it.

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The Dark Lord2 credits
Voldemort

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Safe. What a small word. Those too weak to seek power hoard their little savings and die ordinary anyway.

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The Reluctant Prophet2 credits
Paul Atreides

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

First, master the fear, because fear is the mind-killer, and it is fear asking this question, not you.

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Grand Strategy Mastermind2 credits
Lelouch Lamperouge

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

A false question. Safe is also a bet: you are wagering your one idea against the comfort of never testing it, and the house wins…

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Renaissance Mentor2 credits
Ezio Auditore

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Ah, the young always ask permission from their fear. Listen.

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Gloriana of England2 credits
Elizabeth I

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Every prince in Europe asked us this, dressed as a proposal of marriage, and we answered them all the same way for thirty years.

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Washington's Fixer2 credits
Olivia Pope

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Here is what you do not do. You do not wander into it. You do not confuse commitment with emptying the account.

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Hypothesis-First Strategist1 credit
The Strategy Consultant

Asked My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?

Diagnose the slip before you try to rally anyone. Three steps.

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