Quotes About Strategy

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

A week is a long time in politics

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

The current scene hasn't arisen by chance. Rather, there's "a definite strategy to it," according to John Altman, who began reviving the old farm David's Folly with his wife. Like Semler and Moffet, Altman knows making a resilient alternative to the mainstream requires knowing how "to cultivate the community" as well as the land. These efforts are succeeding; this remote peninsula supports three weekly farmers' markets during the summer and one in the winter.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

In politics, there are no friends.

The intelligence (and humanity) of a person are apparent in the strategies he employs to get what he wants. Wisdom, in winning only that whose keeping would not cause too much headache.

Two paths lie ahead of today's CIOs. One leads to becoming a trusted senior executive leader of the enterprise; the other leads to a technical management, "just keep the lights on and do it cheap" role.

CIOs whose enterprises are fighting for survival need to place the most emphasis on building a new IS organization.

The CIO of an enterprise that is maintaining competitiveness needs to focus on IT governance.

CIOs of breaking-away enterprises need to start with developing a compelling vision.

Let it never be said that I court my own death without proper planning.

Instead of saying, What's the point? ask yourself, What's the next right move?

Worst-case scenarios are often low-probability events. They're even less likely to happen if you strategize how to prevent them from happening, and how you'd deal with them if they did.