Quotes About Strategy

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn't work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they're convinced it does.

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

Remember, the American grand strategy works when other countries feel secure. But it doesn't work if we acquiesce in the aggression of other countries.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

Work backward from your goal.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

I know how teams work. I've been doing this for 30 years.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again, million new jobs, a balanced budget.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.