Quotes About Strategy

The most experienced planner in the world is your brain.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill Focus

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henry Bergson

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler This

Clarifying things on the front end, when they first appear on the radar, rather than on the back end, after trouble has developed, allows people to reap the benefits of managing action.

Minute-to-minute and day-to-day you don't have time to think. You need to have already thought.

Projects do not need to be listed in any particular order, whether by size or by priority. They just need to be on a master list

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the businesslike investor.

Planning something never seems risky. It's in the execution where all the risk comes." "And

The theory of mutual assured destruction was a great catalyst for peace.

Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.

the business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you.

He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.

A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

Assassins tended to favor bulky clothing and small handguns.

He had learned that this dated back to the days of the jousters. Most folks were right-handed, and back then a man wanted to keep his sword or jousting pole closest to his enemy.

The real way to win a football game comes before you step on the field.

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

it was botched. A traffic police officer intervened and the whole plan fell apart. But that was from low-level external sources and had nothing to do with us. Our strike will be quick and clean. And it will succeed." "And you have your team in place?

El éxito o fracaso dependían en gran medida de la preparación. Con una buena preparación, lo único que se requería hacer era ejecutar. Incluso podían realizarse cambios en el ultimo momento si la planificación lo requería." ? David Baldacci , MÁXIMO IMPACTO (The Hit)

BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once for general conceptualization and then a second time for the nitty-gritty details. And then read it a final time, at least an hour after the first reading, but do so out of order, which forced your mind and your eyes from their comfort zones.

Longer-term strategies were the professional domain of others, mostly political types. These folks made good assassins, too. Only instead of bullets, they were basically bribed to enact laws by other folks with more money than was good for them. And they harmed a lot more people than Robie ever could.

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