Quotes About Strategy

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

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.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

The team with the best players wins.

Rich people see every dollar as a "seed" that can be planted to earn a hundred more dollars, which can then be replanted to earn a thousand more dollars.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.

Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.

The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.

It does not take money to make money.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.