Quotes About Strategy

The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.

CEOs are trained to assess business strategy, it's time to take a page from their book and train yourself to manage your own personal career strategy. A career that is left to manage itself will under-perform much like a company whose strategic direction is left to chance. And like a business there are some best practices to avoid. There is planning to be done, decisions to be made and evasive measures to execute in times of trouble.

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

I was trying to solve a testing problem that simply couldn't be solved in isolation. Testing and development, when seen as separate disciplines or even as distinct problems, was wrong-headed and continuing down such a path meant we would solve neither.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.

Mike was very good at making sure all roads led to him. He set himself up very intelligently. He was the guy who could get your kids into the best private schools; he was the guy who could get you into the best hospitals. We didn't know it at the time, but he had a personal press guy, same one as Donald Trump—Howard Rubenstein—and this guy engineered a big Wall Street Journal story.

poder blando y poder duro. Define el último como un poder que "asienta en incentivos (recompensas) y amenazas", sonde el primero se caracteriza por "lograr los resultados deseados atrayendo al otro en lugar de manipularlo o amenazarlo".

All fish are not caught with flies.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

We still seek no wider war.

About Edgar J Hoover "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in"

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Professional sports is a business.

According to Procopius, Justinian and Theodora made it a regular policy to pretend to disagree in matters of state and to side with different parties, while really they always worked hand in glove with each other, betrayed their associates freely to each other, and thus learned the secrets of their enemies.

a war maxim attributed to Napoleon: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

one hundred miles. Ryan: And having made that estimate, did you take into consideration a submarine on the surface at night proceeding on an opposite course from that steered

By all accounts, Stalin, who was both prepared and well organized, was easily the best negotiator of the three leaders. American and British officials marveled at his mastery of the details of military operations and diplomatic issues. Indeed, many years later, Anthony Eden wrote: "If I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice.

In modern war … even those belligerents who are hampered by moral scruples must neglect no weapon that may be of service.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.