Quotes About Strategy

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

The government can catch a hare with an oxcart!

lukavstvo ide uz bogatstvo; ono mu i prethodi i prati ga dovijeka.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. 'Boy', he would say to me in the thick brogue of a champion drunk, 'the only way to fight is to fight dirty. The only place to hit is below the belt.

At the last minute, she bobbed left so that he stabbed the wall she'd hit, trapping the blade in the Sheetrock. As he went to try to get the thing free, she whirled around and nailed him in the gut with her backup blade, springing a hole in his lower intestines. Meeting his shocked stare, she said, What, like you didn't think I'd have a second knife? Fucking idiot.

symphaths treated everything like a chess match—right down to the moment they captured your king, turned your queen into a whore, and burned down your castles.

Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy.

Was going to pitch it to VH1. Two Bites Are Better Than One. We were going to make millions.

Remember, forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, hiding isn't a long-term strategy, and distraction isn't your friend.

You are a manipulator." "I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.