Quotes About Strategy

WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS INVEST YOUR SON';

The goal was to defeat the enemy by limiting its ability to make good decisions.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI The Prince Standard year circa 1513

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

National Review will support the rightwardmost viable candidate.

Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

Are you familiar with the strategic concept of competitive control areas?" Ash asked. "Yes," Stets said.

Observe, orient, decide, act.

Far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

So you think this is a trap then? the Count said. I think everything is a trap. which is why I am still alive. said the prince

The bombing of helpless and unprotected civilians is a strategy which has aroused the horror of all mankind. I recall with pride that the United States consistently has taken the lead in urging that this inhuman practice be prohibited.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Hitler, always at his best when he detected weakness in an opponent

The purpose of the plan was to make Germany self-sufficient in four years, so that a wartime blockade would not stifle it.

The British, he (Gandhi) said, want us to put the struggle on the plane of machine-guns where they have the weapons and we do not. Our only assurance of beating them is putting the struggle on a plane where we have the weapons and they do not.

Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

The best soldiers are not warlike.

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an artî