Quotes About Strategy

Lady Aquitaine sighed. "Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.

You can't win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave.

Wars and plans can't coexist, sir. One of them kills the other.

Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up.

If I ever invade Calderon again, he said, it will be in the summer.

I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn't good business.

Those who had never seen a tribe of cats at war, or at least playing war games, would look upon what came next as utter chaos.

It takes calculation to win a duel against a reptile, and you've always been impatient.

That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades.

Harry, that's not a plan, it's a Looney Tune.

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, Benedict said, his tone amused. It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan.

Better the enemy you know than the enemy you don't.

None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.

She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.

I had three days to screw over Nicodemus Archleone and his crew and get this thing out of my head, without getting myself or my friend killed while I did it.

Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.

If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.

That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place—so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle.

Compartmentalize and conquer.

Form up," I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, "You guys go first.

You have a plan," she stated. "I have a plan." "What's the plan, Harry?" I told her. She looked at me for a second and then said, "You're crazy." "Be positive, Murph. You call it crazy. I call it unpredictable." She pursed her lips thoughtfully for a second and then said, "I can't go any higher than insane.

No. We want to be in defilade. What you want to happen to them is to put them in enfilade.

When you have a problem, you have a problem," I said thoughtfully. I nodded at Cristos. "When you have two problems, sometimes one of them is a solution in disguise.