Quotes About Strategy

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

He who chases two rabbits catches neither.

The Master said, "To go into battle with people who have not been properly trained is to forsake them.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Mike knows the market is crazy, but it will come back," Wynn continued. "But the people who run money panic, they want to get out, so they start selling everything—and Mike will make a bid. Then he sits there. And when it does come back, he makes out.

1. Optimize potential. 2. Facilitate empowerment. 3. Implement visioning. 4. Strategize priorities. 5. Augment core structures.

The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure

What are you going to do? Go to sleep. I mean long range. I'm talking long range.

We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models.

One thing I learned in all my years as a tech person: tech is more about sales than it is about code.

So I want you to get all your friends to come to my place, tomorrow, after school. Five p.m. Tell them, anyone who doesn't come is not allowed to jailbreak anything ever again." He registered surprise. "You mean that if we come, we can still jailbreak?" She smiled and met Nadifa's eye. "Oh yes, my boy. We're not going to stop breaking the rules. We're just going to be smart about it.

Litvinchuk is a smart man; he implements different tactics for different factions.

The trick isn't to fight the aristocracy, it's to find one who isn't too terrible, who has his hands on the reins of power, and make friends. Make yourself useful. The quid pro quo in feudalism is the protection of the lord from the marauders sent forth by the other lords.

Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject

Napoleon was criticized for giving "toys" to war-hardened veterans, and Napoleon replied, "Men are ruled by toys.

it was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.

I would rather walk the sidewalk in front of a person's office for two hours before an interview than step into that office without a perfectly clear idea of what I was going to say and what that person—from my knowledge of his or her interests and motives—was likely to answer.

It is often dangerous to rush into battle without pausing for preparation or waiting for recruits.

He asked questions with which his opponent would have to agree. He kept on winning one admission after another until he had an armful of yeses. He kept on asking questions until finally, almost without realizing it, his opponents found themselves embracing a conclusion they would have bitterly denied a few minutes previously.

I see great things in baseball.

Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.

My friends, in these desperate times we must use every weapon we have...You must understand that patience can be a weapon.

One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, he said. That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will, he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.