Quotes About Strategy

Shimada spoke even more enthusiastically. "The three of us ought to secure this whole island before our troops land again.

If there should indeed be a full-scale search, we had a plan for escaping from the island, but in the event that we were found before we could carry this into effect, we had resolved to inflict as much damage as we could. If we had to die, it would be easier knowing that we had killed ten or twenty or thirty enemy troops.

We calculated that Japan would have found it advantageous to set Mao Tse-tung up as the leader of the New China, because this would make the vast sums of money held by wealthy Chinese financiers available to Japan. We assumed that to secure Japan's support, Mao had agreed to drive the Americans and English out of China and to cooperate with the new Japanese army.

Throw a hand grenade into a German pillbox and they come out with hands reaching for the sky and shouting "Kamerad!" Throw a hand grenade into a Japanese pillbox and they throw it right back at you. It

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

Every plan is a house of cards.

Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.

Mutually assured destruction.

You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work .

It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.

I've missed the rush of power that comes with playing a game like this, of strategy and cunning. I hate to admit it, but I've missed risking my neck. There's no room for regrets when you're busy trying to win. Or at least not to die.

A well-seasoned strategist waits for the right opportunity.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long.

Jasper," said Call. "Tell me something, and please answer honestly." Jasper nodded. "Is this the Assembly's new strategy for torturing me until I give them information?

She waited. Sometimes silence kept people talking. Sometimes if they talked enough, they wouldn't notice when you didn't.

Madoc described fighting as a lot of things, as a game of strategy played at speed, as a dance, but right now it feels like a argument. Like an argument where she's keeping me too busy defending myself to score any points.

The Big Score.

Poison may be a coward's weapon, but it's an effective one.

I always have a plan," she said, rising her eyebrows. "Sometimes, even, a scheme. You should be taking lessons from me.

You're scheming,' the Ghost says, noticing my gaze. ... 'I'm always scheming,' I return.

You gotta be a shark in this business," Benny told her, with his soft voice and his slicked-back hair. "Sniff around for blood in the water.Greet life teeth first. And no matter what, never stop swimming.

As I thought. I didn't appreciate you properly. I dismissed your desire for knighthood. I dismissed your capacity for strategy, for strength- and for cruelty. That was my mistake, and one I will not make again.' I am not sure if that's a threat or an apology.

Crees que yo planeé tu humillación? —Se ríe—. ¿Yo? Eso implicaría esforzarse.