Quotes About Strategy

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.