Quotes About Strategy

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the deadliest of pieces; the manly pawn: the weakest.'

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious "hair of the dog" strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.

Ideas," Hagen said, "are shit. It's knowing what to do with an idea that matters.

Remember this law of balance: Increase the number of approaches and decrease the impact of rejection. Susan

If you dont need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations are not there in the same way.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Un nano non lancia mai la sua arma se non ne ha un'altra!

People with a plan see and wait for the right time.

My mother sings One day at a time sweet Jesus, and even Daddy likes to say that, one day at a time, as if it's some strategy for living. And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time.

Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will run to the tenth mile. At the tenth I will say, Only three more to the halfway." At the halfway mark, 13.1 miles, I will know fifteen is in reach. At fifteen miles I will say, You've run twenty before, keep going." At twenty I will say, Run home.

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

even when the individual and societal benefits of changing a specific behavior are indisputable, we are geniuses at inventing reasons to avoid change. It is much easier, and more fun, to attack the strategy of the person who's trying to help than to try to solve the problem.

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Endurance was the Chinese secret weapon. The Japanese should have understood that, and everybody else had better remember it.