Quotes About Strategy

For the king of the North will raise another army, larger than the first, and after some years he will advance with a great army and many supplies.

Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp, and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will not be able to resist.

He will resolve to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and will reach an agreement with the king of the South. He will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plan will not succeed or help him.

After an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully; for he will rise to power with only a few people.

In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.

And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.

At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time will not be like the first.

and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.

Or again, how can anyone enter a strong manís house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

Indeed, no one can enter a strong manís house to steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.

Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

I know what I will do, so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.í

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.