Quotes About Strategy

Until I come up with something better, the hammer defense." "Huh?" "Classic legal strategy, Nash. If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

One general is wearing a bright red cape, and the other asks him why such an outfit on a day of battle. 'Because, if I'm wounded, my troops won't see the blood, and they'll fight on.' The first general thinks about it and calls to his aide, 'Fritz, bring my brown trousers.

Dammit, she'd been warned about Solomon. He always tested new prosecutors, baited them into losing their cool, lured them into mistrials. And she wasn't totally "new." She'd handled arraignments and preliminary hearings for eight months. And hadn't she won her first two felony trials? Of course, neither one had involved Steve Slash-and-Burn Solomon

Find out what the cops know before you tell them your version. And always call your lawyer!

Is this what you two cooked up? Good cop, insane cop?

Referring to his success in engineering the appointment

For investors who are comfortable with their own choices and do their due diligence, a winning stock is a better (albeit more aggressive) way to go. For those investors who want to make their own choices but aren't that confident about picking winning stocks, an ETF is definitely a better way to go.

Long-term goals refer to projects or financial goals that need funding five or more years from now. Intermediate-term goals refer to financial goals that need funding two to five years from now. Short-term goals need funding less than two years from now.

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Steel, speed, and stealth for a hit. Never spells. And sure as Hells never fire.

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

As Napoleon later put it, when describing his feelings at this time: "I saw the way to achieve all my dreams. . . . I would found a religion, I saw myself marching on the way to Asia, mounted on an elephant, a turban on my head, and in my hand a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. In my enterprises I would have combined the experiences of the two worlds, exploiting the realm of all history for my own profit."7

It was the French fear that, given that option, the U.S. would "chicken out," and sacrifice Europe to save its own skin, that led the French to develop their own independent nuclear capacity.

Overnight, the long-standing tenet that defense should be an extension of foreign policy was reversed.

That's where I operate. In the shadows. Let other people take the credit. Don't be the story, shape the story: that's my motto.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Today's boards don't need chief marketing officers who have creative flair but no financial discipline.

There are 4 Principles of energy management which are the 4R's :- Review, Realign, Reduce and Report

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

The animals were like a storm moving whole, and then breaking, every strategy falling away, all caution gone. In the last few furlongs, nothing mattered but legs and length. Dynasty sailed through the final contenders and gained on the favourite, who seemed to stand still for her alone. She ran as if she were flying. As if she were dreaming the win, or winning in someone else's dream. Then her nose was at the tape. The crowd exploded. She'd done it. I

My dad always taught me 'have a plan stick to it', so here we had a plan and we stuck to it, all the family found it easier to do that.