Quotes About Strategy

If you're going to break up with your old lady, and you live in a small town, make sure you don't break up at three in the morning. Because you're screwed; there's nothing to do. So make it about nine in the morning. Bullshit around, worry her a little, then come back at seven in the night.

Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.

If I had learnt nothing else from my study of the methods of the three great men sitting near me, I had learnt this, that they would eventually pick out the one person I had not suspected. So I followed the simple plan of suspecting everyone. I was determined not to be surprised.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.

Nice guys finish last.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

pay somebody to go to school for me.

You must create a plan that highlights your strengths and hides your flaws.

As Melvin Laird, his Defense Secretary, recalled, Every effort was made to create an economic boom for the 1972 election. The Defense Department, for example, bought a two-year supply of toilet paper. We ordered enough trucks . . . for the next several years.48 Congress, too, propelled election-year spending by its approval of sharp hikes in Social Security benefits: some $8 billion in extra checks went out in October.

and, my dear aunt, if you do not tell me in an honourable manner, I shall certainly be reduced to tricks and stratagems to find out.

He shortly found himself arrived at politics; and from politics it was an easy step to silence.

In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.

Dean Harstad had unbounded patience, the very patience that drove Chairman X bananas, patience as a weapon.

What you did when you wanted to get away with something was not to plan, but to look for an opportunity

We gotta be professional about this, Lula said, aiming us toward Route 1. We need a plan. How about we get the nail polish first, then we get the guy?

Sometimes when a plan is right, everything else, all the things you can't control, falls into place just the way it should.

Whatever the other team does best, that's what you have to do better.

If Ranger needed help with the takedown on someone he was personally tracking he wouldn't call me. If you gave Ranger fifteen minutes he could assemble a team that would make the invasion of Kuwait look like a kindergarten exercise. Needless to say, I wasn't at the head of his commando-for-hire list. I wasn't even on the bottom of it.

Frequently, you'll look at a business having fabulous results. And the question is, How long can this continue?' Well, there's only one way I know to answer that. And that's to think about why the results are occurring now—and then to figure out the forces that could cause those results to stop occurring.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

Ronnie Lott - he got a really good shot on me once and I learned that unless I wanted to shorten my career, I needed to steer clear of his path.

I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.