Quotes About Strategy

If I do my job right, companies will want to keep their money in Argentina.

You can have the big arm, and that's good, and it helps out in the games, but it doesn't help you necessarily win games.

Armies are not only for offensives.

We decided we were going to do more 'Brothers In Arms,' and we were also going to create something original that no one else was doing, and that's what led to 'Borderlands.'

We play to win, with the arms that we have.

When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.

It is always a tough game when you play against Arsenal; they have good players, and it doesn't matter what kind of moment they are in.

Even against big teams like Arsenal, who have a lot of quality, you need a lot of quality as well.

The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle... Play dead, play the sleeping dog.

La potenza non consiste nel colpire forte o spesso, ma nel colpire giusto".

Dans la langue des viveurs, doubler un cap dans Paris, c'est faire un détour, soit pour ne pas passer devant un créancier, soit pour éviter l'endroit où il peut être rencontre. Lucien qui n'allait pas indifféremment par toutes les rues, connaissait la manoeuvre sans en connaître le nom.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

The Athenian strategy moves to the top when things are going well. Spartanism grabs the throne when the world is going to hell.

The first rule is never to split your forces unless it is necessary to survival. The second rule is to attack if you are going to fight, and if you are not going to attack, avoid battle. The third rule is to choose the time and place of battle and never leave that choice to the enemy. The fourth rule is to avoid encirclement at all cost. And the final rule is to attack and destroy the enemy where he is weakest.

Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the talents he enumerated in this fashion. The first talent was the ability to choose the winning side. Failing that, the second talent was the ability to extricate oneself from the losing side. And the third talent was never to make an enemy.

Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home

There's only one way to describe most investors: trend followers.

If one is approached with a deal predicated on cycles having ceased to occur, remember that invariably that's a losing bet.

There aren't always great things to do, and sometimes we maximize our contribution by being discerning and relatively inactive. Patient opportunism – waiting for bargains – is often your best strategy.

Is that your wife?" I asked. "Some day, if I play my cards right

Living in the same city as Microsoft, I'm only too aware that, even in low-technology businesses like coffee, the Next Big Thing could knock the dominant player into second place tomorrow. I keep pushing to make sure that Starbucks thinks of the Next Big Thing before it has even crossed anybody else's mind. In fact, Don Valencia is working on it even as I'm writing this book.