Quotes About Strategy

Anyone who has had anything to do with the higher diplomacy is aware that diplomatic language stands in a class by itself. It is a language specially designed to deceive the chance listener.

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And if I didn't burn the thing, how else could I get rid of it? Fellows on the battle-field eat dispatches to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy, but it would have taken me a year to eat Uncle Willoughby's Recollections.

Gran Bretaña había aprendido, cuatro años después de su primera invasión, que para colonizar al Virreinato del Río de la Plata no hacían falta ni su escuadra ni sus soldados. Bastaba con dominar su comercio. Pocos años más tarde acentuaría su influencia a través del endeudamiento, para lo que contaría con la complicidad de quien fuera nuestro primer presidente. Estrategia de las grandes potencias que se perpetúa hasta hoy.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present." WALT DISNEY

And what is a futurist? Not a fortune-teller or a soothsayer, not a reader of tea leaves or crystal balls. A futurist is a planner and a doer. Futurists look at trends and innovation. They look for patterns of change. Then they act. Futurists don't just predict the future. They make the future happen.

having a strong balance sheet, making sure the right leaders are in place, and keeping costs in line as some of Dimon's other management qualities.

Jamie Dimon is in a position to scoop up assets on the cheap. That's how you create value for the long term.

As history has shown, what happens after the deal determines the ultimate success. It's one thing to make an acquisition, and another to integrate it well.

From his office on the 48th floor, Dimon makes the rounds every day to committee members who are in New York, stopping by for conversations lasting three or four minutes. Those outside New York are apt to get a short phone call. Although Dimon uses electronic communication, his preferred mode is personal and when possible face-to-face. He doesn't waste time, but sees these micro-meetings as the most efficient way to following up on issues across the bank's six business units.

What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?

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If you are going to prove anything, don't let anybody know it. Do it so subtly, so adroitly, that no one will feel that you are doing it. This was expressed succinctly by Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Sé diplomático —le dijo el rey—, te ayudará a obtener tus deseos.

This result is as important for the owner of a business as it is for authors and bloggers.

So she decided on a different approach.

The art of war is a science in which nothing succeeds which has not been calculated and thought out.

Get your principles right, said Napoleon, and the rest is a matter of detail.

And 2,200 years before Christ was born, King Akhtoi of Egypt gave his son some shrewd advice—advice that is sorely needed today. "Be diplomatic," counseled the King. "It will help you gain your point.

As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Those who continue to be mastered by their feelings—whether it is anger, fear, sexual attraction, desire for food or for "looking good," the residues of woundedness, or whatever—are typically persons who in their heart of hearts believe that their feelings must be satisfied. They have long chosen the strategy of selectively resisting their feelings instead of that of not having them—of simply changing or replacing them.