Quotes About Strategy

During bargaining talks, he always tried to maneuver the other side into saying yes as early and as often as possible.

Severin is infinitely more experienced at business. However, I tried to compensate with pure stubbornness.

Mitch had a particular way with women—a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

You've always got to have a plan. Keep thinking ahead. Don't ever get complacent.

seemed like I was fucking him to get a favor.

They never see me coming. Know why? Because I'm already there.

I'm neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.

Mychael stopped me with a hand on my arm. "Raine, when we get inside, let me answer all of the questions." "What, you don't trust my diplomatic skills?" "You don't have any.

Just because I didn't create the plan didn't mean a plan didn't exist.

Anger and blame are powerful weapons. The opposition knows that.

It's a game of constant adjustment and the guy that adjusts the best is the best player.

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

with Japan and was massing troops to attack.

During World War II, code breaking would come into its own as one of the most fruitful forms of intelligence that exists.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10.

Remember, consensus is not a decision-making strategy. In fact, it is the opposite. It's a technique to avoid making difficult choices.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

But maybe the best way to describe Votto is that he's baseball's most cerebral hitter, the Einstein of the batter's box.