Quotes About Strategy

Quindi passeremo direttamente al massacro. - Che modo abile di esprimersi, Narasan.

Poor asset allocation, ill-considered active management, and perverse market timing lead the list of errors made by individual investors.

The management of taxable mutual-fund assets without considering the tax consequences of trading activity represents a highly visible, yet little considered scandal. A serious fiduciary with responsibility for taxable assets recognizes that only extraordinary circumstances justify deviation from a simple strategy of selling losers and holding winners.

rich understanding of human psychology, a reasonable appreciation of financial theory, a deep awareness of history, and a broad exposure to current events all contribute to development of well-informed portfolio strategies.

Sensible taxable investors reach an obvious conclusion: invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds.

For periods of one to two years or less, investors ought to favor bank deposits, money-market funds or short-term bond funds.

If an investor pursued an exclusive strategy of day trading stock index futures, investment results for the portfolio would have nothing to do with asset allocation or security selection and everything to do with market timing. The lack of widespread frenetic trading by investors stems either from a general sensibility of the investing populace or from a Darwinian winnowing of the day traders' ranks.

In Khuram it is said that a man with a single knife can kill two thousand men in a single night.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

It never occurred to him to ask her what sort of demeanor she preferred. He didn't have to strategize or even scheme. Later he knew what the dread had been dread of. He hadn't had to promise her anything, it turned out. It was all for free.

Life is life tennis: Those who serve best usually win.

The sharply precise divisions and boundaries, together with the fact that—wind and your more exotic-type spins aside—balls can be made to travel in straight lines only, make textbook tennis plane geometry. It is billiards with balls that won't hold still. It is chess on the run. It is to artillery and airstrikes what football is to infantry and attrition.

A question, doctor, he said. Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese? He smiled coolly. Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?

Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.

Children and adolescents play a nearly incomprehensible nuclear strategy game with tennis equipment against the real or holographic(?) backdrop of sabotaged ATHSCME 1900 atmospheric displacement towers exploding and toppling during the New New England Chemical Emergency of Y.W. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)

La vita è come il tennis vince chi serve meglio

Qué vamos a hacer? - parece que exclamó Keitel- - ¡Hagan la paz, imbéciles! -le replicó Rundsted-. ¿Qué otra cosa pueden hacer?

is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

William R. Forstchen

Machiavelli said a prince had to transcend traditional morality for the greater good of those he led.

either a terrorist cell member or the ruler of someplace like North Korea or Iran, with only one or two nukes in their possession, could level the playing field against us in spite of our thousands of weapons. That's what is meant by 'asymmetrical strike.

The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. … He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will

As Frederick the Great of Prussia is widely reputed to have said, "Diplomacy without force is like music without instruments.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.