Quotes About Strategy

If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Chess is the art of analysis.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make!

Never leave an enemy standing.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.