Quotes About Strategy

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!

She had read enough about teenagers to understand you couldn't confront them directly. You couldn't even agree with them. The best strategy was to feign indifference to whatever wrong direction they were headed in, then plop in little facts, like Alka-Seltzers, round innocuous comments, let those sink in, take slow, antidotal effect . . .

I'm no ambulance chaser. I always get there before the ambulance arrives.

Major chains like Staples and Home Depot were charging different prices on their websites depending on the zip code in which visitors seemed to be.

PUBLIC RELATIONS GOES DIGITAL

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.

Chama-se a isso o estratagema do relógio. O ponteiro dos segundos saltita tantas vezes que ninguém repara no seu movimento.

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão é capaz de derrotar um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

the case method typically presents the problem to the student. It describes the situation facing a firm and then frames the decision that must be made. In real life, according to McNamara, the leader first must discover the problem.

refine your ability to "connect the dots" among seemingly disparate pieces of information. Threats do not come to us in neat little packages.

One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East

Most Asian companies rely on their cost and speed advantages, and so have not developed strong marketing skills. Therefore, although in Asia foreign firms may be competing with similar products and targeting the same customer groups, their superior marketing approach can give them an enormous competitive edge when it comes to winning customers.

Education is the key," he drilled into me. "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.

Golf is like everything else. You plan. Then real life intervenes.

UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL DRIVERS OF CHANGE (and base your plan on them) PREPARE A PLAN TO IMPLEMENT YOUR STRATEGY THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET STARTED (and don't make concessions for a quiet life) STRENGTHEN THE DELIVERY CHAIN (don't think you can get away without doing so

Without stratagems would a people fall, and deliverance is in a wise counsel.

Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

You know how Washington and London feel about joint operations, Michael. It makes the politicians feel better.

This book will show you the benefit of applying a completely different perspective to advance your career. We are looking at criminal environments to derive the influencing methodology and strategy, from psychopaths or criminal profilers.