Quotes About Strategy

It's nice being the first option as long as you're winning.

A long-term manager is a better option than a short-term one, but you've got to get the right man.

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

By God, war is not an option for two nuclear countries.

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They'll option anything - the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea.

If I see someone I think is in a better position than me, it is better for me to give the ball. Now I shoot more at goal. When I was young, they sometimes said to me, 'You need to shoot more. You try to give it too much.' It is something that I learned. To try to take the best option.

I sat down with my agent and went through my youth-team video footage. I saw that when I started, I'd get on the ball and within two touches would turn straight away and look to attack my opponent, but when I got into the first team, I would go for the safer option.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came in and said, 'What do you think of Xfinity?'

I know it is difficult to play in a big club like Manchester United as a No. 10 because you know how many goals you have to score to play there. So I thought I had to add something to my game. I had to give more options to the manager.

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

When you're out of gas, you don't have many options.

I'm saying that ammunition comes with multiple options, and it's not always military. Ammunition also comes with sanctions. Ammunition also comes with trade.

In 50over cricket there are different ways of playing. It's not all about smacking it over the top. It's important someone bats through the innings. That would be one of the options for me.

In the middle, it gives you lots of options. You can make a run on the right, on the left, deep in the center. It's a big advantage.

We must have options to make tennis more attractive emotions-wise.

When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.

Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.

In the pharma space, we have been growing both organically as well as through acquisitions.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

Even when you are not having the ball, you have to stay consistent, organised, and that's what keeps you in the game.

I think, in football, you need to be competitive. You need quality. You need to be organised and to push.