Quotes About Strategy

Teaching the police to be more sensitive to the most exploited and oppressed is only a strategy designed to prevent police heavy-handedness from unintentionally sparking rebellions as they trample people in the performance of their duties.

where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.

Leadership is ultimately about leverage. Effective leaders leverage themselves—their ideas, energy, relationships, and influence—to create new patterns in organizations.

A prominent Indian analyst, Brahma Chellaney of the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, described China's frontier strategy of constant outward pressure on its borders as one of 'salami slicing': 'A steady progression of small actions, none of which serves as a casus belli by itself, yet which over time lead cumulatively to a strategic transformation in China's favour.

But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That's sort of like living in a small town. It's a simpler game, but it's played to a higher level.

El murciélago era listo. Lo único que tenía que hacer era cagar y esperar.

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.

The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomerís army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.

Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Labanís flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Labanís animals.

Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”

He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.

He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his officials.

“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”