Quotes About Strategy

Two of the most consequential figures of this era, Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth, knew the expedition's true purpose:

Serrão carefully cultivated Ternate's small ruling class, especially its king, and tried to promote trade between Ternate and Portugal

persuaded Charles V of rival Spain to back the project.

This error might have been intentional, to disguise the Spice Islands' location from outsiders

but in any event his geographical legerdemain alleviated Spain's principal anxiety:

the castaways evolved a plan. They would drag the planks over the mountains until they reached the river

Logic doesn't work well for such nonlinear systems as chess and life.

There are two basic strategies that individuals with the Trust Survival Style use in their struggle to exercise their power: they become seductive and manipulative, or they become overpowering.

the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.

Wellington, examining the roster of officers assigned to him for the 1810 campaign in Portugal, said, "I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

A leader is known as much by the quality of his enemies as the quantity of his friends, and Ted Kennedy's greatest enemy was the president of the United States. Nixon feared that the senator from Massachusetts might one day rise from the dark waters of Chappaquiddick to challenge him and his party. Nixon

Change doesn't just happen," her mother had always said, echoing the Shaker motto. "It has to be planned.

You can't creatively help a business until you know how it works.

If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

You do not win a race by trying not to loose

The Nature of Political Terrorism The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as political leaders and news media in the United States have tried to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy. Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders, whose innocence is, of course, no different from that of the civilians killed by American bombs in Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton—letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter

Creativity is the essence of fencing.

Complex problems do not demand complex solutions.

He who defends everything," Frederick the Great used to admonish his generals, "defends nothing.

When the bets were in Dusty would nod his head and I'd knock the guy out. I don't know if you've ever knocked anybody out, but the best place to hit them is where the jaw meets the ear. If you catch them right they fall forward. They were always grabbing at my shirt on the way down and ripping it, so I had a deal with Nixon that I got a new white shirt every night as part of my pay.

The "means" was his second philosophy and can be summed up by a remark he made to Bobby Kennedy at a private party in which they found themselves together: "I do to others what they do to me, only worse." Simply put, Jimmy Hoffa believed that the "ends" of improving the lot of working Americans, with his union leading the way, justified whatever "means" were used to accomplish it.