Quotes About Strategy

una política exterior con ambiciones regionales, centrada solo en los vecinos inmediatos, está hoy al alcance de más países; los que no aprovechen esa oportunidad, se quedarán atrás.

un ejército moderno y de gran tamaño ya no basta para garantizar que un país pueda alcanzar sus objetivos estratégicos.

Los nuevos competidores, ágiles, insurgentes y revolucionarios, son tan eficaces y amenazantes en el mundo de la mercadotecnia y la publicidad como lo son en el de la política o en el de la guerra.

Necesitas neutralizarlos por completo y por todos los medios posibles. —Hegemonía total. El presidente toma nota de ése y de otros tantos sabios consejos—

To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, reflecting on Bush's "stay-the-course" strategy, said, "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drillin' rights on that man's head.

Do not stare into the eyes of your opponent: he may mesmerize you. Do not fix your gaze on his sword: he may intimidate you. Do not focus on your opponent at all: he may absorb your energy. The essence of training is to bring your opponent completely into your sphere. Then you can stand just where you like

Never chase after opponents

Face a single foe as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe

maximum of these minimum values; this value is called the maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and

maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and 10,

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

He who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power...

Business is two-faced, hypocritical self-interest diplomacy.

A genius is someone who sees the big picture of everything presented before them—They can predict how it's going to turn out in the end and what steps have to be taken to make it so.

A win-win strategy or situation will ensure that both the citizens and the government are cooperating and collaborating accordingly.

All you need in politics is to find or create a big fire that will keep the iron or the multitude hot.

As long as you have armies in the world, war cannot be avoided forever. It can be postponed for a certain time only. Taking a short break.

Citizens associate the art of diplomacy with peace, without considering that there is as much cruelty in diplomacy as on the battlefield.