Quotes About Strategy

I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Too many businesses compete on price when they should be competing on value.

There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.

The anonymous1 author wrote, "Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.

But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3

Fear and debt. The two most powerful tools of empire." He

The U.S. started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill our enemies to one designed to piss them off.

Alliances are based upon mutual need, not love

They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli.

THEY SPENT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES plowing through the minutiae of the campaign.

It's a game, you know," he said, testing her. "You can't back off in a game and win. You either go balls to the wall, or somebody takes you out and you're no good anymore.

Only the criminally stupid or naïve assumed that the other side was less clever.

Since Lucas had been in the same coffee shop that morning, talking to Green, he knew the layout of the place. He told the two women agents, Stack and Bradley, to park as close as they could to the coffee shop's door, hoping that would push Carver away from a parking place that he could see from the shop, and give the technician a good chance to install the tracking bug.

So I've decided," Taryn said. "Do it, but be clever about it. Don't give yourself away. Call from a cold phone.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

What is the point of knowledge if you can't use it to prevail over others?

There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.

The plan is not the goal.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

You seem tense," Kahurangi said to them. "Of course I'm tense," Niamh snapped back. "We have a stupid plan." "You're just saying this because it's my plan." "I'm not just saying it because it's your plan, and also, yes.