Quotes About Strategy

I'm not doing one lucky punch or spinning kick and catching somebody. I'm going to own you - not beat you - own you from the first bell to the last bell.

Once you start to spiral a company down, you lose the momentum.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

A lot of goals are scored when defenders lose their concentration for a split second and a forward makes a run in behind or gets that one extra step that leads to a shot.

It's not always going to be there; every play is not going to be a 40-yard gain. You just have to take what they give you. When the opportunity comes, you have to split it and make them pay for it.

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher's pitches, really.

The first time I spoke to Avram Grant, my first question was about his conception of football. He gave me his answer and it was a good point.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

Don't depend on luck to solve problems.

Leave your luck while still winning.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.