Quotes About Strategy

In other words, successful generalship involves first figuring out what to do, then getting people to do it. It has one foot in the intellectual realm of critical thinking and the other in the human world of management and leadership. It is thinking and doing.

When there is no coherent strategy, tactics, no matter how flashily executed, become meaningless.

I have the greatest respect for General Buonaparte, as every soldier must. But he will make out of Egypt a catastrophe for France. The Revolution has but one enemy, England. And the place to strike England is close to her home.

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

This is due partially, I think, to the Democratic Party's more or-less official response to its waning fortunes. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the organization that produced such figures as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, and Terry McAuliffe, has long been pushing the party to forget blue-collar voters and concentrate instead on recruiting affluent, white-collar professionals who are liberal on social issues.

While leftists sit around congratulating themselves on their personal virtue, the right understands the central significance of movement-building, and they have taken to the task with admirable diligence. Cast your eyes over the vast and complex structure of conservative "movement culture," a phenomenon that has little left-wing counterpart anymore.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

This tendency to focus too heavily on the occasional success is helped along by an asymmetry in the way we evaluate success and failure. A single success generally does more to confirm a strategy's effectiveness than a single failure does to disconfirm it. Indeed, successes tend to be taken as prima facie evidence that the strategy is effective.

Successes, in other words, are generally seen as confirmations of one's underlying strategy, whereas failures tend to be thought of only as failures of outcome, not as failures of strategy.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

Great offense and poor defense translate into under accumulation of wealth.

Good design is good business.

All is politics in this capital.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Stanley told me that's how everybody does business these days. They make up swell corporations so no one can find them." "It's shell corporations." "That's what we should have done when that Columbus guy showed up.

For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behaviour is called...policy.

Easy," he muttered under his breath. "Save the foolish heroics for the 'all-else-fails' part of the program.

Everything is politics.