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Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life QUOTES

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life QUOTES

1 " Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' In other words, love is a dominant strategy. "

― Avinash K. Dixit , Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

2 " Khrushchev first denounced Stalin's purges at the Soviet Communist Party's 20th Congress. After his dramatic speech, someone in the audience shouted out, asking what Khrushchev had been doing at the time. Khrushchev responded by asking the questioner to please stand up and identify himself. The audience remained silent. Khrushchev replied: "That is what I did, too. "

― Avinash K. Dixit , Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

3 " Finding dominant strategies is considerably easier than finding the Holy Grail. (...) It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. In other words, love is a dominant strategy. "

― Avinash K. Dixit , Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

4 " Taken at face value it would suggest that whether or not a country will be attacked depends on whether there are an even or an odd number of links in the chain of potential predators. "

― Avinash K. Dixit , Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

5 " If you have just two alternative strategies, and one of them is dominated, then the other must be dominant. "

― Avinash K. Dixit , Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life