Quotes About Strategy

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

Private equity enables the growth and development of unlisted businesses.

Private equity is a growing form of financing.

Come to think of it, it is like production. Marketing designs the plan—what should be sold at what price, and how it should be sold. Sales actually goes out and implements the plan. Stylistically, marketing is like process engineering and sales is like production.

A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

Grand Ole Opry appearances were a loss leader. Like

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage. Good chaplains pick up the pieces and put everything together again.

During my career I've worked with intelligence agencies and experts of every kind, from a young lieutenant, battalion-level intelligence officer to all sixteen branches of the U.S. intelligence community. With rare exceptions, intelligence analysts do all they can to give you the information and facts you need to understand the enemy and the situation and come up with the best decision.

Stop, Look, Listen—then strike hard and fast with all the power you need.

when you're negotiating, you should always go for the thing you're least likely to get first. Then you can always back off to some of these other things if that doesn't work.

If you want to catch a big fish, the best way is to fish in waters that are unpopulated by other fishermen.

The NIDS plan was a simple one.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.

In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means.