Quotes About Strategy

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win. Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming.

Life happens when you least expect it, but that doesn't mean you can't have a blueprint in your back pocket.

Niekas nepradeda karo- ar bent jau ne vienas protingas zmogus neturetu jo pradeti - tvirtai nesuvokdamas, ka siuo karu jis ketina pasiekti ir kaip jis ketina kariauti.

No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. – CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ, Vom Kriege

Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.

Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

Another lesson to emerge is that in a complex technological disaster, hardware by itself won't solve the problem. You need to think things through, to diagnose and analyze and interpret.

Historians tell us that Talleyrand once told Napoleon, "You can do anything with bayonets, Sire, except sit on them." In the language of the court this meant that obedience to the law ultimately depended on cooperation, not force.

In general, our generals were out generalled.

Oddly enough, our views were shaped quite a bit by the example of the thirteenth-century Mongol campaigns of conquest. Genghis Khan's "hordes" – often smaller than the armies they faced – benefited immeasurably from what we today call near-real-time reporting on the disposition, composition, and movements of the enemy by their corps of "Arrow Riders," a Pony-Express-like communication system that gave the Khan a consistent winning advantage.

John B. Hattendorf

Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it

What are you playing?" I asked him. "War." "Is that a game?" "It's the best game in the world." "And are you winning?" "I won't know till it's over." "And perhaps not even then.

They sought security by piling up more and more irrelevant weapons.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race.

How will you deal with him? Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever the Almighty permits us. Supposing he's not alone? Oh, then, if his trusties are with him, there'll be a bonny rumpus.

It's a wise conspirator that knows his own name.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan. Traditional

Buying funds based purely on their past performance is one of the stupidest things an investor can do.

Owning the stock market over the long term is a winner's game, but attempting to beat the market is a loser's game.