Quotes About Strategy

When we launched the Wii - I mean, again, people look back and say, '100 million units, it was easy!' Believe me, I was there, and it wasn't easy at all. We had tough conversations, internal debate, like, 'How are we going to do this? How are we going to bring it to life? What are we going to do?'

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

The real reason Democrats are pushing for universal mail-in balloting has nothing to do with the global pandemic which originated in China; they simply believe it will help them win elections.

Normally, we define banks as being either retail or corporate, but ICICI transformed itself from a corporate bank into a retail bank and, now, a universal bank.

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

I had a plan. I played football professionally but I also studied at university.

When I first became a head coach, even back in Minnesota, I'm going to go with the known and leave the unknown alone.

We were unknown before, and that was an advantage. Nobody knew who we were, so we snuck up on the competition.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

This is one of my favorite pick up strategies: I'm constantly giving women my keys. So far, none of them have shown up. Matter of time. And I've been robbed twice.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.