Quotes About Strategy

Mary Buffett

What do they say about revenge?" "It's a dish best served cold.

The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated.

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

All's fair in love and war.

All fair in love and war.

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

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

sitting there with the blanket over him was the only thing he could think of to make all the hotheads, white and red, curious enough to forget fighting. Then

You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.

Sometimes winning is not only a matter of knowing the rules, but of making your opponent think he knows them better.

I perfected my craft, playing the quarterlords and merchants against one another as if I was a musician and they were crude drums rumbling beneath my hands, making one boast to another that I had never pulled anything over on him, making them all feel so very smart, even as I relieved them of items I could put to better use elsewhere.

the center as well. He laid his cards out. A fortress of lords. The governors threw down their cards, unable to beat him. Everyone waited, breathless, for Lia to lay her cards out. She frowned and shook her head. Then looked at me. Blinked. A slow blink as long as a thousand miles. Then back at Malich. A long sigh, contrite. She laid out her cards. Six black wings. A perfect hand. "I think this beats yours, doesn't it, Malich?" Malich

Know your enemies as well as you know your allies. Know them better. Make their business yours.

prior planning prevents poor performance. Andrew would

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce!

The Romans did not concern themselves with the number of their enemies; they only asked, 'Where are they?