Quotes About Strategy

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!