Quotes About Strategy

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.

One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach.