Quotes About Strategy

To be predictable is to become the hunted.

WARRIORS ARE NEVER AGREEABLE PARTICIPANTS. SHOULD WARRIORS CHOOSE TO INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN SOMETHING IT IS ONLY BECAUSE IT SUITS THEIR STRATEGY TO DO SO.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence

The wooden wall is your ships.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion.

Professionals in a campaign are servants; they can tell him only how to do something once he tells them what it is he wants to do.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

There is a homely adage which runs, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

We dread war; but we follow Washington and Lincoln in dreading some things worse than war. Therefore we desire to prepare against war.

speak softly and carry a big stick

Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.

Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

We are going to start the war from right here. (Utah Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944)

The prime strategy of the technocracy "is to level life down to a standard of so-called living that technical expertise can cope with—and then, on that false and exclusive basis, to claim an intimidating omnicompetence over us by its monopoly of the experts.

Very few battles are ever fought exactly as planned.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

With the help of prominent media outlets, the Royalists, now a political minority, would engage in a scorched-earth strategy to defeat a coming Progressive Revolution, even if it meant crashing the United States as we know it. If they were going down, then the rest of the nation was going down with them. Which is exactly what happened.

Here is another great contribution of the low-hanging fruit. You and many other people get to see what is working or not working on a relatively small scale. With this collective insight and wisdom, you are able to proceed more wisely with the larger change later. You get greater

Leading effective change in your church without prayer will not work. And it's not very smart either.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Most companies have a yearly rhythm. For example, retail often has a busy time around December. If you identify the rhythm, you can plan your projects around it. If you don't, you will find yourself swimming upstream. If your company doesn't have a defined rhythm, define one for yourself.