Quotes About Strategy

When the cougar stalks by night, the hunted must become the hunter.

We can plan our work and work our plan; however, being organized and methodical will not protect us from the unexpected.

Against the enemies we're targeting, Ms. Cooper, the method of death is crucial.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

much diversification is really diworsification.

Having a strategy suggests an ability to look up from the short term and the trivial to view the long term and the essential, to address causes rather than symptoms, to see woods rather than trees.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. —Mike Tyson

Indeed, Clausewitz was wary of the general who tried to be too smart. He preferred those who kept their imaginations in check and a firm grip on the harsh realities of battle.

Strategy is revolution. Everything else is tactics.

So the realm of strategy is one of bargaining and persuasion as well as threats and pressure, psychological as well as physical effects, and words as well as deeds. This is why strategy is the central political art. It is about getting more out of a situation than the starting balance of power would suggest. It is the art of creating power.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

The ability to persuade not only one's people but also allies and enemies was a vital attribute of the successful strategist. In this way, strategy required a combination of words and deeds, and the ability to manipulate them both.

Napoleon embodied a new way of fighting wars: a combination of individual genius and mass organization, and objectives far more ambitious than those of his predecessors.

strategy formation walks on two feet, one deliberate, the other emergent.

A sudden powerful transition to the offensive—the flashing sword of vengeance—is the greatest moment for the defense.

The most effective strategies do not depend solely on violence—though this can play an instrumental role, by demonstrating superiority as much as expressing aggression—but benefit instead from the ability to forge coalitions. Little in the rest of this book will suggest that this list should be expanded. The elements of strategic behavior have not changed, only the complexity of the situations in which they must be applied.

El poder para hacer daño es poder para negociar. La capacidad para explotarlo se llama diplomacia, una diplomacia perversa, pero diplomacia».

Las estrategias, por tanto, no deberían entenderse como medios para conseguir el control sobre determinadas situaciones, sino como modos de afrontar situaciones en las que nadie tiene un control total.

The Art of War did not provide a single route to victory and recognized that while battles were best avoided they sometimes had to be fought.

viewing strategy as "the art of making use of time and space";

fortaleza y el ingenio (bi? y m?tis), representadas respectivamente por Aquiles y Ulises (u Odiseo);

Maquiavelo—, representados en la fuerza y la astucia.

Deception also turned out to be a vital strategic quality. It involved deliberately sending untrue signals with a view to changing another's behavior.

De acuerdo con la definición más sólida y aceptada, la disuasión dependía de convencer al objetivo de que los costes previstos superarían con mucho las presumibles ganancias; además, la disuasión se caracterizaba por limitar las ganancias al tiempo que se aumentaban los costes.