Quotes About Strategy

While you're taking your minute to think, consider the possible outcomes. Immediately discard any that involve making the Bully back down and admit that you're right. You cannot be right and effective at the same time.

It is no longer real, but just an illusion that I make real for my own amusement. To know the self we must make the mountains move. All we need is just an insight; not much, just a flash, a moment in which no reflection occurs. These moments go on all the time, and all the time we close up against them. We close up against a loss of self, we react, we clench, we adopt one or other strategy.

I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?

No todas las batallas se ganan atacando al enemigo por su flanco más débil; en ocasiones resulta aconsejable atacar justo en su punto fuerte.

Când ai de gând s? ataci, trebuie s?-l faci pe duÈ™manul t?u s? cread? c? ai mai puÈ›ine forÈ›e decât ai în realitate, dar când te aperi trebuie s?-l faci s? cread? c? ai mai multe. Asta e regula, deÈ™i uneori succesul vine când încalci regula...

'What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Era una delle sue massime questa, che, per riuscire a far del bene alla gente, la prima cosa, nella maggior parte de' casi, è di non metterli a parte del disegno.

Tra tanti appassionati, c'eran pure alcuni più di sangue freddo, i quali stavano osservando con molto piacere, che l'acqua s'andava intorbidando; e s'ingegnavano d'intorbidirla di più, con que' ragionamenti, e con quelle storie che i furbi sanno comporre, e che gli animi alterati sanno credere; e si proponevano di non lasciarla posare quell'acqua, senza farci un po' di pesca.

You cannot call yourself a proper warrior if you refuse to use all the weapons in your arsenal.

Be subtle. Use your spies for every kind of business. —SUN TZU, The Art of War

God is on the side with the best artillery. NAPOLEON

they even put up bad reviews on TripAdvisor to scare away the tourists.

Elections are supposed to be political occasions. In fact the opposite is true. The last thing politicians want to talk about at election-time is politics. What they want to talk about is votes. And the less you talk about politics, the more votes you're likely to win - otherwise you might offend someone.

Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

Don't play the occasion, play the game.

very often our victories were squeaked out in the last few minutes, after we had drained the life from our opponents. Games – like life – are all about waiting for chances and then pouncing on them.

Games–like life–are all about waiting for chances and then pouncing on them.

When you run any organisation, you have to look as far down the road as you can.

If you need one person to change your destiny, then you have not built a very solid organisation.

One obvious aspect of management is identifying people who can help you get where you are trying to go. Talent-identification sounds like a straightforward business. If it were, every team would be successful.

part of a leader's job is to eliminate as many risks as possible.

The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.