Quotes About Strategy

The reason many fail to cut the tree is, they come with a knife.

En guerra o en paz, lo apropiado es sacar partido de las circunstancias

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it — cold war.

In 1956 the Eisenhower administration used its creditor powers to pressure Britain to withdraw from the Suez Canal and hand it over to Egypt. The U.S. is in danger of giving similar power to China.8

if there is one lesson the Army has learned (or re-learned) in the past twelve years of war, it is this: the application of military force in its current form has limited utility when fighting modern wars among the people. "Combat power" in the form of superior weapons systems, cutting-edge technology, and disproportionate force ratios may enable tactical success on the ground, but does not guarantee strategic victory.

the conceptual breakthrough, if any, is the ability to call a retreat and declare victory at the same time.

the people will show that they have what Chinese military thinker Sun-tzu called "the supreme skill"; that is, to be able to win without fighting. It happened in Berlin and Bucharest and will soon occur in Beijing: the people will take back their government.

The old saying in defense planning is that one must judge an adversary's capabilities, rather than its intentions.

The once proud PLA realizes that it is short of everything that it takes to win a modern war.

TYLER FORD: A tiger team? What's that?          HANK: Oh, sorry. It's a group of people that are put together to solve a problem that no particular unit in the company is responsible for. So the boss picks a

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The first rule of knife fighting," said Nick, "is—don't.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

the trick with modern warfare was not to outgun the enemy, but carry weapons he could not gimmick.

Better by far spend two whole days on a quarter page ad, and have it right, than fill a whole page full of bombastic piffle and senseless inanities...

And that is the whole secret of successful advertising. A good store, selling good goods at right prices, is the foundation... No advertising should be better than the store behind it.

St. Patrick was a gentleman Who, through strategy and stealth, Drove all the snakes from Ireland; Here's a bumper to his health. But not too many bumpers, Lest we lose ourselves, and then— Forget the good St. Patrick And see the snakes again.

We are living in an age of "Mergers" and "Combines." When your business is not doing good you combine with something and sell more stock.

When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your picnic table will keep the campsites on either side vacant.

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

But cards are war in disguise of a sport...