Quotes About Strategy

John Paul was a bystander as the American church quietly approved an aggressive new legal strategy that included, as The Washington Post uncovered, "hiring high-powered law firms and private detectives to examine the personal lives of the church's accusers, fighting to keep documents secret and engaging in new tactics to minimize settlements."65

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Don't agonize. Organize.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Augustus Caesar

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.