Quotes About Strategy

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.

The leading cause of failure is mismanaged success. And the leading cause of success is well-managed failure.

The Aramaic word for prayer (slotha) means 'to set a trap.' Opportunities are like wild animals.

dream big, pray hard, and think long.

If we had the right civilian leadership, we would have responsive military leadership. But I ask you, how can you lead somebody when you don't know where you are going?

Clausewitz says the following in his book On War: 'Kind hearted people might, of course, think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this to be a true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed. War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

It is harder to defend a computer than to attack it.

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

At all times it is better to have a method.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

I define random trading as poorly-planned trades or trades that are not planned at all. It is an unorganized approach that takes into consideration an unlimited set of market variables, which do not allow you to find out what works on a consistent basis and what does not.

you asked me to distill trading down to its simplest form, I would say that it is a pattern recognition numbers game.

A clear vision is as much about what you are not going to do as it is about what you are going to do.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #12: IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS, DO ONE SMART THING AT A TIME.

I have no way to defend my borders but to expand them,

Yep. Quentin held him back in kindergarten and again in seventh grade so he'd have two extra years to get bigger. He did. Lots of dads do that now. Soon

Yep. We spread five out, shotgun, no huddle, throw fifty times a game. Call it the NASCAR offense 'cause we never slow down.

It's the 'big lie' theory: tell a big lie, and tell it often—and attack anyone who calls it a lie.

The key to fixing a big problem is to select the right tools.

2. Identify the person's modus operandi—the specific way he acts out his crazy.

Why is stipulation a smart technique? Because when people already know (or will quickly find out) the problem that you're admitting to, your best move is to get it out of the way. Even better, you can often transform that problem into a powerful asset.

you're not trying to solve the problem that's on the table right now (a kid who's violating curfew, a coworker who's missing deadlines, etc.). Instead, you're shifting people to a place where they can solve the problem—and the next one that comes up, and the one after that.

Most people are scared to try this approach, because they think "no" really means "no." In dating, it most definitely does—but in business, surprisingly often, it doesn't. To get from "no" to "yes," however, you need to make the right moves. Here's what to do.