Quotes About Strategy

Sometimes I wanted to be aggressive. I felt like if I wasn't getting shots up or if I wasn't being overly aggressive on defense then I wasn't playing good. I finally realized just to slow down and just let the game come to you.

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.

Mind games to me are overrated.

Being in the fairway, I think the fairways are a little bit more overrated.

I think audibles, the way people talk about it, it's overrated.

We're not in the business of taking large operations in the U.S. and moving them overseas.

These days it is not very easy to overtake in Formula One, the cars have great aerodynamic downforce. When you are behind a car, you lose downforce.

The biggest chance to overtake is in the first two laps of a race. Later on will always be more difficult.

I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I'm happier than if I stick to the learning theory where the goal is a maximum of five things per day and then they only remember two.

Setting aside a risk reserve with a 50 percent or better confidence level is called risk containment. When risks are paid for out of this reserve, they are said to be contained.

As defense against failure, standard process is a kind of armor. The more worried you are about failure, the heavier the armor you put on. But armor always has a side effect of reduced mobility.

Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.

years, no goal of Washington—not a single one—has been accomplished by war.

Golf course design is exciting.

Amateurs think about tactics, but professionals think about logistics.

The US military's greatest shame is that it today remains a Second Generation force, despite the ready availability of books like Fighting Power that clearly show the superiority of the Third Generation.

A Third Generation military focuses outward, on the situation, the enemy, and the result the situation requires,

During 19th-century wargames, German junior officers routinely received problems that could only be solved by disobeying orders. Orders themselves specified the result to be achieved, but never the method.

martial transformation from the Western way of war to a neo-Eastern way of war is, like most historical changes in the art of war, the result of technological advancement. The

Naval supremacy means little in an era of free trade when the enemy owns no ships, and even air supremacy is of dubious value when the enemy refuses to line up in red-coated ranks on the battlefield to be mowed down from above.