Quotes About Strategic

A leader must be able to see the end results of the policies and methods he or she advocates. Responsible leadership always looks ahead to see how policies will affect future generations.

Specifically, what dangers do you have now that need to be eliminated, what opportunities need to be captured, and what strengths need to be maximized?

We came out into the afternoon sunlight, dazed by the light and the film, both agreeing that what we had just seen was, essentially, a documentary. (We didn't yet know—nor did SAC—that existing strategic operational plans, whether for first strike or retaliation, constituted a literal Doomsday Machine, as in the film.)

I hope to develop our relationship with the Trump administration and with the United States. It's a very sound relationship that's based on the basic strategic congruence of views about the world, about the region.

It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure.

You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.

Your ultimate goal as a leader should be to work hard enough and strategically enough that you have more than enough to give and share with others.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

In this day of strategic alliances and power networks, it's literally impossible to build large-scale, long-lasting success without world-class relationship skills, including in social media.

There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters.

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The plan was typical of the way the German officer corps had come to see strategic problems in a vacuum, entirely from their narrow viewpoint, and without recourse to the nuances of diplomacy or the needs of politics.

It was still dangerous to disagree with Stalin. This fact was disastrous for the war effort. His generals were terrified of telling him bad news; it was safer to lie. For the first several months of the Great Patriotic War, therefore, he often didn't know the real strategic situation. Even worse, military experts couldn't question his amateur civilian judgment without fear of death.

Their timing was perfect, because the regent was seriously ill.

She turned next to Moray's base in Fife, cutting his supply lines.

Being strong is not enough sometimes you have to act wisely in order to avoid the problem.

They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.

and taking up a position in the middle of Kent between the two forces

It was stupidly perfect how all my problems were suddenly solved with the strategic application of money.

While landing a spacecraft on a planet via Skip Drive navigation was officially and strongly discouraged by the Colonial Union, the Colonial Defense Forces recognized the strategic value of sudden and unexpected arrivals.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.