Quotes About Strategy

Opening a dialogue with your potential clients is an example of what I call "the shot across the bow," and it's a great way to start your prelaunch campaign.

South Korea's government and private industry have spent the last quarter-century collaborating to build this pop culture empire, in pursuit of a soft-power strategy that they've dubbed "Hallyu," or the "Korean Wave.

Remember that this is a game of defense as well as offense and be prepared to protect the areas which you occupy. —FROM THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BOARD GAME RISK

But game theory only works when the rules are clearly set out ahead of time. In the Nash bargaining game here, neither of the players was aware of another rule presently at work: that what they were bargaining over—me—might be a player in the game too. As

He guessed that in Washington two conversations often went on simultaneously: the one you meant and the one you said out loud.

Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

he said that the head of the whole shebang, Averell Whittaker, is retiring and selling the company. I'm wondering if maybe a buyer hired the Locksmith then leaked the story to drive down the value of the company. Might be worth looking into.

I'm not a bad person." Zagaev looked up at me with imploring eyes. Claims of ethical purity are a common strategy in games like this. But they're paper, forever losing to scissors.

Sign cutting taught me that terrain determines the route the prey follows 90 percent of the time: you generally have only to follow the path of least resistance to be pretty sure of remaining on the trail of your target. Henry Loving was different. His route took him in directions that didn't seem to make sense, less direct and more difficult. But

You're sure it was Loving?" "Yes. That's exactly the kind of strategy he'd choose. There's no doubt it was him." I was aware of the corollary to that conclusion: Loving would know too—because of the escape strategy—that I was the opponent he was now playing against.

Loving was playing a Bayesian game now, one modeled on imperfect information.

Remember what Lyndon Johnson said about J. Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Stevie, don't get cross, get even.

Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation? Of course not, you fool, said Jimmy. This is politics.

the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.

Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?' 'Of course not, you fool,' said Jimmy. 'This is politics.

deal with all four of them in one masterful stroke. Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was

what Rosnovski's next move would be.

I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

the agenda well in advance; the questions that would be asked, the replies that would be

The most powerful tool for breaking extreme poverty is a holistic community-based development strategy that combines vocational training and job placement, early childhood development, educational upgrading, and local infrastructure. Each part of the antipoverty effort supports all of the others. This kind of ground-up development effort must in practice be led by the communities themselves but backed with financing from the federal and state governments. Options

Thinking is very hard work. And management fashions are a wonderful substitute for thinking.

Planning is essentially unrelated to organizational performance

On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again.