Quotes About Strategy

The Conservatives will have a serious plan that is not a tax on families and businesses, that will get our emissions down by partnering, by being strategic and and taking it seriously, but not through just a tax mechanism.

At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers.

Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.

Henri Pélissier once said: 'Always attack as late as you can, but before the others do.

El ciclismo es un deporte de paciencia. "El ciclismo es rebañar el plato de tu rival antes de empezar con el tuyo".

a novelist's work is often a strategy (I don't mean the author need be aware of this) for dealing with some personal dilemma. Not just that the dilemma is "worked out" in the narrative, as critics often tell us, but that the acts of writing and publishing and positioning oneself in the world of literature are all part of an attempt to find a solution, however provisional, to some deep personal unease.

In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.

De Valera was back to his old tactic of taking an extreme course while sounding moderate.

he moved that the press and public be excluded so that misunderstandings could be cleared up. Collins refused to let him get away with the ploy and read out the credentials which the plenipotentiaries had received, saying that the secret instructions should not have been read out without them.

After the Four Courts bombardment he made his way through the tunnelled buildings to the Gresham Hotel where he found Art O'Connor, de Valera, Robert Barton, Countess Markievicz, Austin Stack, Oscar Traynor and Brugha, 'all apparently without purpose'.3 The anti-Treaty leaders were courageous, but woefully bad tacticians, disorganised and lacking any overall strategy.

There was Brigade Major Montgomery, later Field Marshal Montgomery of El Alamein, who wrote of his Irish experiences: 'My whole attention was given to defeating the rebels. It never bothered me a bit how many houses were burned.

Of course, had the British Army been used in a more all-out fashion, concentration camps, air raids, artillery bombardments and the rest of it, the result might have been different.

One inevitability of the Collins strategy was war, because as the police system crumbled, the British were forced to replace it with a military one.

I assent to this proposed Bill as effecting an ingenious strengthening of our tactical position before the world. I am absolutely satisfied that the Sinn Feiners will refuse it.

At the Parliamentary level Collins privately explored every avenue open to him to bring down the Northern Administration.

I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.

Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you'll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you're going to work out every single day when you know you're only going to do it three times a week?

From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level; you're not going down to theirs. You're not competing with anyone else, ever again. They're going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

We're not going to lose it. That's all there is to it," Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on February 18, as Lam Son 719 became a debacle. "We can't lose. We can lose an election, but we're not going to lose this war, Henry.… North Vietnam can never beat South Vietnam. Never.

nuclear missiles? How many tanks?

The director of the National Security Agency, General Michael V. Hayden, had told tens of thousands of his officers in a video message: "We are going to keep America free by making Americans feel safe again.

If the plane you fly has a true airspeed of 120 to 180 knots, you need to be thinking about weather at least 120 miles to 180 miles ahead of your present position. That means the conditions you'll face at least one hour in front of your present position should be carefully considered now.