Quotes About Strategy

The game I love to play : Keep the ball equidistant from Bruno and Roxy.

If we cannot multiply churches, we will never see a movement. If we cannot multiply leaders we will never multiply churches. If we cannot multiply disciples, we will never multiply leaders. The way to see a true church multiplication movement is to multiply healthy disciples, then leaders, then churches, and finally movements-in that order.

The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal operational person considers past experiences, present demands, and future consequences in attempting to maximize the success of his or her adaptation to the world.

The most effective selling strategy during this phase is to uncover dissatisfaction in the account and to develop that dissatisfaction until it reaches the critical mass.

The most common strategic error that salespeople make in this phase of the sale is that they don't try to uncover the customer's guidelines, or criteria, for making the decision.

Cao sent the battalions chasing long-gone foxes because he wanted to give the presidential palace the impression he was on the alert. Afterward he would order the battalion back to its base to "rest" instead of returning it to the training center. Training his men for combat was not one of Cao's priorities. He pretended they were already well trained.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

Sometimes if you hold back on someone, they mistake your kindness for weakness. Sometimes you've got to go all out, to show people that you mean business.

if preparation prevents war, there would have been no war in Europe. They spent twenty years preparing for it."29

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

Non-violence is a good policy when conditions permit.

Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. It

One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.

In love, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue.

Decisions should not be taken out of pride or embarrassment, but out of pure strategy.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

The acceptance of the end wills the means. And the wisest reflection could not devise more effective means than those which are willed by the acceptance of the end.