Quotes About Strategy

Conn Iggulden

I will be khan of them all. We are one people and one man can lead them. How else can we take the cities of the Chin?

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

discovering (or creating) new market space (that is, innovation!) should be the goal and ambition of every company.

Successful innovators focused on technology as a driver of value, not just as a tool for operational efficiency.

la pregunta no formulada seguía siendo: ¿cuánto tiempo más debían resistir? En aquellos momentos, en las primeras horas del domingo 24 de septiembre, después de ocho días de batalla, se calculaban las fuerzas de Urquhart en menos de 2.500 hombres. Y para todos ellos solamente había una pregunta: ¿cuándo llegarán las fuerzas de Monty?

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body")

We didn't know, of course, the political views of all these people. But—and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart—God did! My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer. I knew I was not clever or subtle or sophisticated; if the Beje was becoming a meeting place for need and supply, it was through some strategy far higher than mine. A

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Ministries that have it always have a clear vision

When you go to a dogfight, it's always good to bring the meanest bitch.

And hoped to advance his own political career with a personal victory." "Like all true horse's asses, he hoped to go into politics.

Here was the conundrum: they could fight elsewhere in 1942, or they could fight in Europe in 1943, but they could probably not do both. They must choose.

During World War II, while the Americans used Navajo Indians speaking their native language for radio communications, the Japanese used speakers of the Kagoshima dialect to keep communications secret. To me, it sounded like

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

Good readers are flexible in their thinking and use different strategies for different types of reading.

My solution to the problem [of North Vietnam] would be to tell them frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

The enemy of my enemy… Is my husband.

If you want to get away with something, don't announce it first.

That would be foolish," he said thoughtfully. " You see, Davie, if I was wanting a man to help me with the lambing I'd never wait until the lambing had started. I'd get him into the way of things before. He'd be some help to me then. It's the same with war. I'll need to learn to be a soldier before the fighting starts. That's the sensible way of doing.

Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)

I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

The version of 'Moneyball' I pitched - and we made - is about a guy, Billy Beane, who thinks he's trying to win baseball games. But it's deeper than that.