Quotes About Strategy

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.