Quotes About Strategy

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,Kings would not play at.

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Where Is It Written That To Be Successful In Business You Have To Be Smart?")

attack n. assuming an offensive posture The military refers to attack as "assuming an offensive posture.

Barter and exchange is the business of merchants, not fighting of battles and dethroning of princes.

as Edmund Burke famously put it, 'a state in the guise of a merchant'.

Deciding to lure Bourquien off his strong position, Lake gave the order for the infantry to fall back in a feint, and they did so, between two wings of cavalry who lay hidden behind the tall grass. The Marathas took the bait and rushed forward, only to find themselves

Out of the range of practical politics.

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often!

William Frederick Halsey (Jr.)

Our ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the Japanese fleet.

He noted in one of his earliest memos that the average annual return for stocks from 1926 to 1987 was 9.44 percent, but "if you had gone to cash and missed the best 50 of those 744 months, you have would have missed all of the return. This tells me that attempts at market timing are a source of risk, not protection."*

As Kahn put it, the secret of investing could be expressed in one word: "safety." And the key to making intelligent investment decisions was always to begin by asking, "How much can I lose?

Consider the brutal mathematics of financial loss: if you lose 50 percent on an ill-considered bet, you'll need a 100 percent gain just to get back to where you started.

If you want to become "a stock market master," he explained, "stick to buying good companies (ones that have a high return on capital) and to buying those companies only at bargain prices (at prices that give you a high earnings yield).

His psychiatrist told him that he had triumphed back then by adopting mental strategies that professional athletes used routinely—setting clearly defined goals, visualizing themselves performing flawlessly, and repeating affirmations that crowded out all doubts and fears until they were replaced with unshakable self-belief.

They sought to answer such questions as What is the intended destination for this business in ten or twenty years? What must management be doing today to raise the probability of arriving at that destination? And what could prevent this company from reaching such a favorable destination?

It's all about deferred gratification," says Sleep. "When you look at all the mistakes you make in life, private and professional, it's almost always because you reached for some short-term fix or some short-term high. . . . And that's the overwhelming habit of people in the stock market.

If all the devil's wits and wiles will not serve him to overcome one single soldier in Christ's camp, much less shall he ever ruin the whole army. These

The mind of a General makes one a General.

Many companies enter businesses planning to capture only a small percentage of the market. Such plans are not conservative; they are extremely dangerous. They are strategies for failure. The only good plans and the only good marketing programs are those aimed at dominance, backed by sufficient resources to achieve it, and executed with precision.

Marketing people know the corporate position so well that they automatically develop pricing strategies compatible with it rather than with market needs.

i suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called coach.