Quotes About Strategy

When the guards noticed my chessboard, they all wanted to play me. And when they started to play me, they always won. The strongest among the guards taught me how to control the center. After that, the guards had no chance to defeat me.

My left foot is not the strongest but I can be clever by going round somebody or using the right side of my foot.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

Someone like Boris Johnson is reluctant to answer questions about ambition because then the story becomes all about his ambition. Sure, he's got ambition - that's no secret at all. But also, he's very strongly motivated to try to get the kind of Brexit he believes in.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

You need to start games strongly and finish them strongly.

I strongly believe that we would be amiss to cut ourselves off from Saudi Arabia without expending every effort to avert disaster.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

I was struck by the ideas of Sarri, when you see them from outside you get a certain idea but when you are inside you understand the intelligence of a coach who has brought new ideas.

What's going on in the game today... it's data vs. art - that's what it comes down to for me. Art being the human heartbeat, data being numbers, the math, etc. I believe there's a balance to be struck right there.

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

As a leader, you sit at a different level of perspective from your team, either with line of sight higher and across the organization structure or connected at more senior levels with your clients and partners.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.

Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.