Quotes About Strategy

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Well we got 'em, it was a pretty good plan. Could say it was the greatest pla-

TIME IS ARCHIMEDES' LEVER in investing.    Archimedes is often quoted as saying, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth." In investing, that lever is time. (And the place to stand, of course, is a firm and realistic investment policy.)

How can institutional investors hope to outperform the market... when, in effect, they are the market?

And if you don't believe me or even Charley, remember that Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of our time, has opined that all investors would be better off if their portfolio contained a diversified group of index funds.

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

No nation has friends only interests

Because anticipate rather than search the bushes. (Car plutôt anticiper - Que les fourrés rechercher.) [Fables1, The Rabbit and the Hedgehog / Le Lapin et le Hérisson]

Because to prepare is to win, they said to each other. And they made a banquet in this honor. (Car préparer, c'est déjà gagner, se dirent-ils. Et ils firent un banquet en cet honneur.)"

Horse was already in the heart of the Trojans. (Cheval était déjà dans le cœur des Troyens.)

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Mr. Guppy suspects everybody....of entertaining... Sinister designs upon him....he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary

A bargain,' said the son. 'Here's the rule for bargains -"Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

With skillful parries the pauperized Swabian, master of mobile operations, endeavored to counter the thrusts of Montgomery

Therefore, the delays we face are not a denial of His promises; rather, they are an integral part of His strategy to arrange all the details and get us positioned for His excellent plan.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.