Quotes About Strategy

Good intelligence is crucial to winning a military campaign. Of course, as a rule, if those in charge of a military actually had good intelligence, there would be a lot less war.

I've always held the belief that you can accomplish more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

We had several Startenders who could not only sell ice to Eskimos, but also convince them to pick up snowmaking machines and air-conditioners, not to mention bathing suits and outdoor swimming pools.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.

The water boils over. I turn down the heat, carefully drop the noodles in, and watch the dry block soften and separate. What was once stiff and brittle comes unglued. The curls relax into waves as the noodles depart from one another. I sprinkle in the soup base, and the water browns. My mouth waters as I stir the noodles and wonder how in the world Trent Bedderman might get us some cash. Fast.

The legal aphorism is that when the law is on your side, argue the law; when the facts are on your side, argue the facts; when neither is on your side, attack the witness.)

Did I realize at the time how high interest rates might go before we could claim success? No. From today's vantage point, was there a better path? Not to my knowledge—not then or now.

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

Conoce a tu enemigo y no te acerques a él

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.

Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war.

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

2.Enhancing the customer's competitive standing.

Much time and money is wasted by salespeople trying to sell the wrong people the wrong solutions to the wrong problems.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do political opportunists.

running a business without marketing will kill it

A business without marketing is dead.

the essence of what General Douglas MacArthur said is right: All defense and no offense doesn't get you very far. General Patton provides supporting cover when he advised, "Never let the enemy choose the battlefield.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.

The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.

In America's 'nonlinear war', with no frontline or clear political or territorial goals, the number of enemy killed apparently revealed who was 'winning'. 'The military kill' became 'the prime target, simply because the essential political target is too elusive for us, or worse, because we do not understand its importance'.

At the present rate of attrition, Haig delighted in informing the prime minister, 'the enemy's man power will be running out next May or June at the latest'.