Quotes About Strategy

If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term

That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!

people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Never speak harshly of your enemy -- when you can kick 'im in the shins instead!

Jack Nicklaus was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else

Fight Fire with Fire

If everyone fought fire with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

For instance, if you are a bank robber - although I hope you aren't - you might go to the bank a few days before you planned to rob it. Perhaps wearing a disguise, you would look around the bank and observe security guards, cameras, and other obstacles, so you could plan how to avoid capture or death during your burglary.

he couldn't help but think that nearly anything could be used as a weapon, if one was in a weaponry mood.

It's a good plan, Mr. Snicket." "Oh sure," I said, "like juggling dynamite, or kicking a polar bear.

Reconocer el terreno» significa observar un lugar concreto para poder urdir un plan. Por ejemplo, si eres un ladrón de bancos —aunque espero que no sea así—, quizá vayas al banco unos días antes de robarlo. Quizá con un disfraz, mires aquí y allá, observando a los guardas de seguridad, las cámaras y otros obstáculos, para poder planear cómo evitar que te capturen o te maten en el transcurso del robo.

I do what I do, in order to do something else.

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.

An architecture that is not documented, and not communicated, may still be a good architecture, but the risks surrounding it are enormous. —RK

They say the mustard manufacturers get rich from the dabs of mustard people leave on their plates. And we'll get rich in the same way, darling. From selling the soldiers weapons they'll never use.

bis peccare in bello non licet – in war two blunders aren't permitted.

He remembered the PM saying that every Russian is at heart a chess-player, and every American at heart a public-relations man. Well, Bret Rensselaer's zeal did nothing to disprove that one. The sheer audacity of the scheme plus Bret's enthusiasm was enough to persuade him that it was worth a try. Bret nodded to acknowledge the compliment.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.