Quotes About Strategy

Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies

Stick to the fundamentals. That's how IBM and Hilton were built. Good things, sometimes, take time.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

You'll never achieve what you never planned for. You'll never plan for what you never thought of.

Success without planning is impossible.

To win, you must use neither aggression nor arrogance. Indeed, you can obtain your goals by being calm and doing all things required to achieve your goals.

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the 'try' angle.

Sometimes when a girl acts like she's not interested in you, it might be that she's testing you to see how bad you really want her.

If you find yourself going in circles, maybe you're cutting too many corners.

If you really want to advise me, do it on Saturday afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock. And you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Not on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

Never give advice - sell it.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Treat me like a queen and I'll treat you like a king. Treat me like a game and I'll show you how it's played.

Don't PLAY hard to get. BE hard to get!

Ladies, the second you stop chasing him is the second he'll start chasing you.

In life, as in football, you wont go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

I'd like to thank Tetris for making me really good at loading my dishwasher.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.