Quotes About Strategy

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Before all else, be armed.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.