Quotes About Strategy

It had been Theodore Roosevelt's dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should "speak softly and carry a big stick.

The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice," a Free French newspaper commented sarcastically.

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

You Got to know when to hold em' , Know when to fold em' , know when to walk away, know when to run.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

counterinsurgency"—a standard term for terrorism that we direct.

So you have to  ask, "Is it better to help the worse candidate to be elected?" You can make a case for doing that. In fact, there was an old Communist Party principle back in the  early 1930s: "the worse, the better." If you get the worse candidate in, it's going to be better, because then there will be more support for a revolution.

The planned elections seem "more designed for the consumption of US Congress and world opinion than for the Guatemalan people."69

Sede Hanibal Barca i Filip II u nekom kafi?u i pricaju o ratnim taktima , kad nailazi odnekud oftamolog te im rekne - A jelte vas dvojica , da nijeste možda naletili na Vasilija Drugog Bugaroubicu? xoxoxoxoxo

si quieres derribar un gobierno, armas a su ejército y, por supuesto, haces difícil que funcione el gobierno civil.

The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.

Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you. There was nobody else there.We're not idiots.she grimaced. I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer. she smiled weakly. it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Do you play tennis, Senator? Now and then, he said with a ghost of a smile. He didn't add he'd lettered i the sport at Harvard. I'd imagine chess would be your game-plotting,long-term strategy. His smile remained enigmatic as he reached for his wine. We'll have to have a game. Shelby's low laugh drifted over him. I believe we already have. His hand brushed lightly over hers. Want a rematch? Shelby gave him a look that made his blood spring hotly. No.You might not outmaneuver me a second time.

Alan had still stopped her in her tracks with one of those slow, devastating kisses at her side door.He hadn't insisted on coming in.Shelby might have been grateful for that if she hadn't suspected it was just part of his planned siege.Confuse the enemy, assail her with doubts, leave her with her nerve ends tingling.Very clever strategy.

What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?

Um inimigo astuto escolhe a altura e o campo. Quanto mais ela gostar de ti, mais forte é o golpe. Afinal de contas, o caminho mais seguro até à alma passa pelo coração.

Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.

He had a communications director named Hope Hicks. It's not like this was some kind of brilliant subterfuge.

Perry wanted to be the villain, probably for strategic reasons. But it didn't take. He wasn't smart enough; he probably didn't even know how "Ayn" was pronounced.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

The worst strat­egy I could pur­sue is self-?im­prove­ment.

Since boyhood, fury had become his father. His older brother. His only protector. Fury gave him strength and courage and spurred him to always move forward despite always getting things wrong and always failing and no mentor there to help him or teach him and everyone always laughing. Anger delivered him from catastrophe. Rage kept him from going under. It had come to be his greatest asset and only strategy.