Quotes About Strategy

But some rules are just rules. You just got to break them carefully.

A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly -Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Storie—

There is probably no worse investment strategy than following the conventional wisdom with a time-lag, and that is precisely what many small investors do - often with the encouragement of their advisers.

Three simple rules - pay less, diversify more and be contrarian - will serve almost everyone well.

Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Je suggère que tu mettes de côté une partie des sommes que tu investis à fonds perdus dans l'industrie des boissons alcooliques.

thought you'd make Levy Pants nationwide.

The rule is that financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What

Alright, Colby. How we wanna play this? In through the skylight? Side entrance? Sneak in the back? Are you kidding? Fuck all that shit. Poyo don't sneak.

For just as no politics can be pure, so no "grand strategy" will remain unaffected by the unforeseen.

Just what Khrushchev intended to do with his Cuban missiles is, even now, unclear: it was characteristic of him not to think things through.

But when Christopher mentioned that he and Talbott had been trying to package post-Cold War policy in a single phrase, Kennan said they shouldn't. Containment had been a misleading oversimplification; strategy could not be made to fit a bumper sticker. The president laughed when Talbott told him what had happened: that's why Kennan's a great diplomat and scholar but not a politician.

adaptaban mejor los objetivos a las capacidades, los atenienses o los espartanos? Y

ejército recuerda a la del agua», explica Sun Tzu. Si atacas donde tu enemigo menos lo espera, es decir, «si evitas su fuerza y atacas su punto débil, entonces, como le ocurre al agua, nada se te opondrá».

Sun Tzu deja suficientes vías libres para contentar al zorro y mantiene, a la vez, el propósito y la determinación del erizo.

es la diferencia, fundamental en el campo de la estrategia, entre respetar las limitaciones y negar su existencia.

Los grandes ejércitos transportan consigo lo necesario para asegurarse de que lo que pudiera ir mal no vaya

He insisted on flying to Washington in a new and untested airplane so that its size would intimidate his hosts.

Without ever having read Clausewitz—at least as far as we know—the president revived that strategist's great principle that war must be the instrument of politics, rather than the other way around.

The name 'United Nations' was Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.

France has the best military record in Europe. The French have fought more military campaigns than any other European nation and won twice as many battles as they have lost.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. MARK TWAIN

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly!

Indeed, methodology matters more than anything else.