Quotes About Strategy

The choice of strategy might be based on common sense: the test of character was to find this in situations of extreme stress.

idea that the best strategic practice may now consist in forming compelling accounts of how to turn a developing situation into a desirable outcome.

Tactics defined as "the science of military movements

Von Moltke saw the tactical task as conceptually simple—destroying as much of the enemy force as possible—but practically challenging, which was why his preparations for battle were meticulous. Once battle was done strategy came back into play.

Von Moltke's most radical innovation as a commander, which went against the textbooks of the time, was to divide his army so that both parts could be kept supplied until they would combine for the battle ("march divided; strike united").

La decisión de intentar encontrar una solución rápida y decisiva es una causa frecuente de fracasos.

Never confuse good luck with good planning

They can sell at that price—and go broke and you can, too! If you base your price on your competitor's price—and they are going broke—you will, too. Typically, someone among your competition is going broke and usually is cutting prices on the way out. Owen Young, who is credited with having built General Electric, once said, "It's not the crook we fear in modern business; rather it's the honest guy who doesn't know what he is doing.

There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are," he'd say. "It's only your next move that matters.

Early in my career I had learned the wisdom of not gripping over the hand I was dealt. I had a mentor who taught me lessons about business and life that served me for years. He looked at business the way a grand master might look at a chessboard. There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are. It's only your next move that matters.

Patent licensing was not a business strategy for Pixar. It was a financing strategy, something we would do once or twice to bring in cash, but no more. It would buy Pixar time, not guarantee long-term success.

Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

Stephen] Harper had said he would use all legal means, and what [John] Baird suggested was an option the prome minister was considering. If the governor general had refused his request, he could have replaced her with a more compliant one, making the case to the Queen that the people of Canada were opposed in great numbers to a coalition replacing his government.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

How can a guy hit and think at the same time

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

After I squirmed into the snakepit of national politics, I realized that a ruler must equate the unpredictable with the unreliable. The future was too important to leave to whim.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Sterren realized he would have to rely on his wits -- and those wits were good enough that he knew he would rather not have to rely on them.

You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.