Quotes About Strategy

My dad ran a few marathons; I fight the urge to do the same because I know that it's not the most efficient way to train unless you're preparing for an event similar in nature, which baseball players are not.

I would urge Rachel Notley to be more like Peter Lougheed. Lougheed had a sensible plan for the oil sands, which involved ancillary infrastructure like upgraders and refineries.

I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who's guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

If you already have some amount of significant traction with customers, either in usage or in revenue, you should very quickly try and get that clearly out.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'

If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.