Quotes About Strategy

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are staples. The four countries of highest interest - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - are constants.

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.

We're going to push hard against China because 90 percent of the trade that happens with North Korea is from China, and so, while they have been helpful, they need to do more.

How can we pressure China on North Korea if China's one of the two largest holders of American debt?

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

I always break people's noses with the uppercut, not the hook.

I'm not sure whether it counts as a talent, but I love playing 'Magic: The Gathering.' It's mathematical and intellectually challenging, and makes me feel nostalgic for when I played as a kid.

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

At the end of the day, when you have more points than the other team, you win. So, defensively, it's all about not giving up touchdowns. It's about trying to keep them off the board.

As a company, we are not interested only in investments.

I am not interested in the technology business, at least not in getting hands-on.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Well, ever since I was six, I had a little notebook with coverages and notes on the mental aspect of a game, what it meant to be a leader and what type of attitude you had to have.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

I definitely take notes, but I feel like sometimes if I take too many notes, it kind of bogs down my mind a little bit. So, I just write down stuff that I need to remember for the game.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

It's in the nature of defence that you rarely notice it.

In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad.

I just feel like when I come up against another team, I'll always look at their best players and I'll think, if I can stop these doing what they are doing, then I'll get noticed and I'll help the team as well.

Absolutely, at a macro-level, I want our firm to be a purpose-led firm. This notion of making an impact that matters, I want that embedded in whatever we do.