Quotes About Strategy

Maybe everyone was part con man. Maybe everybody was in the game, and Phil just knew better than anyone else how to play.

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You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

Los planes son las coordenadas; el plan, el mapa entero.

In light of men's emphasis on fidelity in a committed relationship, displays of fidelity should be paramount in women's tactics of attraction. Faithfulness displays, such as honesty and trustworthiness, signal that the woman is pursuing a long-term mating strategy and that she is doing so without deception and exclusively with one man.

A man at the apprenticeship stage of a promising career may pursue only brief affairs, figuring that he will be able to attract a more desirable long-term mate later on, when his career is closer to its peak.

Adolescent men often live in a world where available women are in scarce supply, because women prefer mature men with position and affluence. Young men's strategies reflect these local conditions of female scarcity, because they engage in highly risky competition strategies, committing the vast majority of violent crimes of sexual coercion, robbery, battery, and murder.

Good luck will be the residue of good design.

when you haven't got the numbers, be vicious. It's called minority politics.

What he's about is destroying a government. Looking like a prime minister in waiting is a second-order consideration.

From the moment Julia Gillard became prime minister, Abbott's mantra has been: "If you want to stop the boats, you have to change the government." But for that to keep working in his favour, it's best the boats keep coming.

That's the secret, Frank. Always have an iron in the fire. Always have another angle ready to go... Remember, if you can't outplay them, you have to outwork them. - Charles Schulz

Don't you love it when a plan comes together?" Carl

I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever.

The one area of expertise you can never give up is sales.

if we're so good at helping companies strengthen their products, services and brands, then why are we so poor at applying the same deliberate choreography to our own business operations?

Hay juegos que debemos tomar en serio, como el poquer, ahi hay dinero de por medio. Pero la guerra? Es un chiste.

Conocí a un piloto que decía: si nadie está tratando de adelantarte, preocúpate. Quizá es que vas el último.

Para hacer buenos negocios solo hay que tener buen ojo, dinero y falta de fe en la inteligencia humana.

Battles aren't always—or even usually—won by killing everybody on the other side. They're won inside the other side's brains and wills. Given the right weapons, the right tactical situation, anyone can kill an enemy. Convincing her to yield, to do what you set out to compel her to do without killing her—that's harder.

We heads of state really prefer to have some sort of an agenda before we sit down at the high-stakes table, you know. All bad novelists notwithstanding, surprise and improvisation are not the best basis for successful diplomacy!

Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons