Quotes About Strategy

One piece of advice that I would give people playing pick-and-prays

you should always play a high-priced horse in the last leg.

you need a bomb in the final race, so no matter what, you want a bomb in the last leg.

If you fail to plan you are planning to fail.

The art of war lies in calculating the odds very closely to begin with, and then in adding exactly, almost mathematically, the factor of chance. Chance

Such perfection endures. For more than two millennia after horse-riding was invented, the warhorse remained the most important military technology bar none. A plentiful supply of horses was critical even in the 19th century, well after firearms had replaced the bows and arrows. Have you ever wondered why Napoleon, who won all of his battles until 1812, lost one battle after another in 1813 and 1814, leading to defeat and abdication? The surprising answer is: horses.

War is too important to be left to the generals.

You have to have more leadership, less management. It's about getting stuff done, you can sit around and analyze things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on.

Section144 (of the Criminal Procedure Code) slowed, confused, sometimes deflected the independence initiative. But the cat never closed in for the kill.That was never the intention. Besides there were, if you will, too many mice.

Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.

We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary.

The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.

YOU CANNOT PREVENT AND PREPARE FOR WAR AT THE SAME TIME —Albert Einstein

GRUNTS LOOK THE ENEMY IN THE EYE. GRUNTS KNOW THE STAKES. GRUNTS KNOW THE PRICE OF POOR STRATEGY. WHAT DO THE GENERALS KNOW? OVERLAYS AND TACTICAL PLOTS. THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN. –KENNETH LUBIN, ZERO SUM

If you've got the senses and reflexes to hide between someone's saccades, why stop there? Why not do something that really works?

In a global, digital economy, if IT is not a strategic asset, it's a strategic liability.

Cuando no se puede resolver un problema, se crea un comité de expertos, según dijo una vez un político.

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

Thirty minutes into the game, I was quite comfortable. Then they [...] got two goals back-to-back which certainly turned the game in their favour.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

I was in the military for over ten years! If you can't read a battlefield you could accidentally surrender to your own officers, which is super embarrassing, if only because it'll get you shot.

Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Never burn a bridge unless your foe is on it, captain.

I'M PLAYING LOOSE — Game: Average 2 players before the flop Action: First to the pot, and raising Players: 9- to 10-handed