Quotes About Strategy

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

a successful business is centered around a market and that market's needs. It's not centered around your wishes and desires. Ideally, what you want will overlap with what they need, but what you want should not be the source.

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

The essence of strategy is finding out what your unique advantage is. ~ MICHAEL PORTER

MBA 10 instant MBA lessons Infinite Ideas with Nicholas Bate

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

They were confident and cunning. They weren't mucking around looking for nuclear weapon secret sloppy seconds in America. They could care less about America. They were busy with the whole world domination thing.

Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr

Do not grab pawns at the expense of development or position.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don't stay broke.

High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons

In the realm of political action, laws are few and far indeed: skills are everything.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

A me – dice – piacciono i libri in cui tutti i misteri e le angosce passano attraverso una mente esatta e fredda e senza ombre come quella d'un giocatore di scacchi.

Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzi? t? wojn?, która w danej chwili si? toczy, i co najwy?ej pomy?le? jeszcze o nast?pnej.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.