Quotes About Strategy

but a wise man never closes all the options.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

Tell us about the crisis of 1981. It started much earlier, around the time I spelled out my three-stage strategy. Here I was, extremely successful, but I made a point of denying my success. I worked like a dog. I felt that it would endanger my success if I abandoned my sense of insecurity. And what was my reward? More money, more responsibility, more work-and more pain-because I relied on pain, as a decision-making tool.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

either on a competitive or a cartel basis.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

A company that can't sell what it makes can't stay in business. Eventually, inevitably, the marketplace will collapse and a global depression will hit that will make the last depression look like good times." Kelly

If your plan is not in writing, you do not have a plan at all. Instead, you have only a dream, a vision, or perhaps even a nightmare. The simple written plan works best.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car found a different point of entry into the same business. Originally a leasing company, it began an entry into rental cars when an enterprising manager at one of its offices began picking up customers for the start of their lease. No one else did that, and that became Enterprise's point of entry.

But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

Ci ritrovammo tutti a bordo per un consiglio di guerra. La mia proposta di sopravvivere un altro paio di giorni nutrendoci di patelle fu immediatamente bocciata.

My place is in the realm of ideas – the brainwork, as it were. I put my brain at your disposal for the formation of schemes and stratagems, and then you, the muscular ones, carry them out.

To oversimplify, we overwhelmingly search out opportunities to play Stag Hunts rather than outsmart each other in Prisoner's Dilemmas.

Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.

La fuerza de la familia emana de los padres y sus convicciones. Si no existe una filosofía, estrategia o enfoque coherente a la crianza infantil, y si los valores no son claros, la conducta de los padres suele ser inconsistente y confusa.