Quotes About Strategy

Nadal is just more at home on clay. It looks like he feels safer on clay courts. He can get to a few more balls, he can play a bit further behind the baseline when he defends, and he's also able to get the ball to bounce higher. It's unbelievable.

Customer-centricity is unbelievably important.

There is a difference going onto the pitch with No. 10 on your back rather than No. 12, and you need to have a clear understanding and be unbelievably prepared for what you are going into and what you will face.

I'm going to take Barrera out in devastating style with unbelievably hard shots. He's tailor-made for me, and I will fit him with a suit to wear on the canvas.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Victory is the main object in war.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.