Quotes About Strategy

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

A group of idiots led by a wise man can defeat a group of wise people led by an idiot.

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

The other day I went to the Huddle House. I wasnt hungry, I just wanted to call some plays.

The only sure rule in golf is he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

When youre up to your armpits in alligators, its hard to remember to drain the swamp.

Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.

When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming.

If your attack is going too well, youre walking into an ambush.

Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

You can sum up this sport boxing in two words: You never know.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

O sa-ti dau sah si-ti pierzi optimismul, Imi spune el. - Nu-i nimic, glumesc eu, Fac rocada sentimentelor.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Raymond Lull, was the first Westerner to devise and carry out a full-fledged mission strategy among Muslims. Lull followed his own advice that Europeans learn Arabic in order to communicate the gospel in Islamic regions. His life ended during a fourth mission trip to Muslims, when again his actions matched his words. "Missionaries will convert the world by preaching, but also through the shedding of tears and blood and with great labour, and through a bitter death."[48]