Quotes About Strategy

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

The wise man once said invest young

The mastermind, the man with the plan

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself