Quotes About Strategy

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

There you go. Use your granddaughter to pick up women. That'll get you points in heaven.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.

It's ok to be a fool once or twice but never let it be a third time. Be smart and pretend to be a fool and at the end of the hunt make sure you're the one that has the gun.

If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.

Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.

The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.

A lady never shows her anger, she channels it to further her ends.

I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.

At Stanford, it was a little bit difficult for players to 'D' me up in the post, so that was a strength of ours. We just pounded it in the block. But I really feel I could play both the 4 or 5 position.

We've got lots of time. We're not winning the Stanley Cup in the first exhibition game.

When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you.

If you had a Starbucks that never sold coffee, you wouldn't keep the site open. It's not that we're abandoning sites, but we're saying, 'Let's go where there's HIV, focus our resources there.'

McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

How players react to questions that you ask can give definitive information as to the strength of their hand. Even an opponent who says nothing at all might be sending a silent signal. A mere shrug, an awkward smile, or even a frozen stare can be meaningful.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.