Quotes About Strategy

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Oscar De La Hoya looks good boxing, but you have to consider the opponent.

I buy when other people are selling.

What are these better deals the U.K. really wants from Europe and other countries? Some more clarity would be helpful.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

Shouldn't India, too, like other countries, protect its national interests?

I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

If you look at Arsenal today, I really enjoy watching them play - they play some really good football - but that is not enough to win football matches or to win competitions. But in our time, we were winning, and we had the strength to not play well but somehow manage to win the game 1-0.

The Russian leadership doesn't operate in the same way as ours does. Informal networks have a much more important role to play than formal networks.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Women often focus more on delivery - what is the outcome going to be rather than what are the interactions people have in order to get there.

I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

When I was in government, what we would used to mystically call 'the kinetic option' was way down on our list. In my personal thinking - in my personal thinking, I need to emphasize that - I have begun to consider that that may not be the worst of all possible outcomes.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.