Quotes About Strategy

Planning is deciding in advance what to do and how to do it. Planning bridges the gap between where we are and where we want to go. It makes it possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen.

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

Building your brand doesn't take millions. It takes imagination.

Fifteen or twenty tired men sitting around a table in a smoke-filled room behind locked doors.

There is a right kind and wrong kind of victory, just as there are wars for the right thing and wars that are wrong from every standpoint…. The kind of victory MacArthur had in mind—victory by the bombing of Chinese cities, victory by expanding the conflict to all of China—would have been the wrong kind of victory.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

This is pretty much what the Democratic party has come to: getting to the polls the maximum number possible of the least-informed and most easily swayed voters, and constantly trawling for more.

You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Advertising is only another form of statistics.

Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy. I have a bunch

strategic-issue reviews are organized around "facts, alternatives, and choices.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Even though it is logically obvious that we must accept equilibrium, we are not built to be satisfied with it because being unsatisfied has been an excellent strategy for the last several billion years.

He had a three on his forehead. Jay had a seven; Len had the queen of diamonds. Hank a ten, and David the queen of hearts. "Big bet, buddy, for a guy with your card," Len warned him. "Oh, yeah?" John said. "You should fold right now." "You don't say? My quarter is in." "You really should fold," David told John. "You think? I'm pretty sure you shouldn't even have bothered to ante," John told him.