Quotes About Strategy

Charles Krauthammer

The point of the superpower is not to invade, it's not to drop the bombs, it's to be so strong that when you issue a warning, secretly or publicly, the other guy who listens and doesn't do it.

Or Aron Nimzovich, author of perhaps the greatest book on chess theory ever written, who, upon being defeated in a game, threw the pieces to the floor and jumped on the table screaming, "Why must I lose to this idiot?

Regardless what you do or what business you're in, time is more often than not your fiercest competitor.

Schalk, a catcher for the White Sox for seventeen years, no doubt got more than a few chances to use his favorite line about Cobb: "When Ty started to steal second, I would throw to third.

The umpire ruled that the catcher didn't touch Cobb. He also ruled that Cobb hadn't touched the plate. While the Yankee players were protesting, Cobb sneaked around the bunch and touched the plate.

If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!

Sometimes you have to show people your cards to keep them in the game.

Organizational theorists, at least since Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 in what came to be called the contingency school, have recognized that centralization is appropriate for organizations with routine tasks, and decentralization for those with nonroutine tasks.

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.

make a simple plan, inform everyone involved with it, don't change it, and kick it in the ass.

You're a trickster, Doctor, not a warrior.

You had to speak softly and carry a big stick.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

Suggesting an additional definition for 'politics':] The art of organizing and handling men in large numbers, manipulating votes, and, in especial, appropriating public wealth.

A clear path to anything is more helpful than one that is not!

The danger for a small business is the inability to think and act big – The danger for a big business is the inability to think and act small…

In sum, then, my socio-literary approach to Mark's healing and exorcism stories takes into account both the social and cultural dimension. It attends to the discursive function of the episode in the narrative strategy of the author: as symbolic action addressing a symbolic system that oppresses. This opens up and maintains access to the text for all. It also explains why Mark's Jesus is such a threat to the stewards of the status quo.