Quotes About Strategy

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

Any coach out there that wants to lose, you make sure they put raisins in the breakfast oatmeal. You'll go down, don't worry about that.

Obama is dedicated to a 'drip, drip' doctrine.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

The object is to win as many games possible.

The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Before we start anything creatively, we have a firm understanding of our objective and our frame of mind for the campaign. Who's our audience, and what's their day-to-day behavior? How can we complement those behaviors? How is our message more than an interruption? Why would people care about what we're saying?

I'm very objective driven, so for me it's very important to know who I'm fighting, when I'm fighting, and roughly the direction I'm working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.

When it comes to cup competitions and the Champions League, it's always about going as far as we can. Getting out of the group stage is the first objective, then after that, we will see.

Scoring a goal is very important for us, but the objective is to win the match.

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

It's not really important whether we play beautiful football. It will be good if we play attacking football and score a lot of goals. But the main objective is to win.

My objective with men at 2nd and 3rd is to get one quality pitch to drive them in. If it's not available, I'm going to go to first base. I won't make any apologies about that.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

What's important is to find a good balance between the team, the objectives and the financial aspect.

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.