Quotes About Strategy

For me it's been more important to plan what I want to say, have a mental road map for the points I want to emphasise, and then try to maintain my train of thought.

I was the puppet master, not the control freak.

Opponents come to Old Trafford expecting an onslaught. 'Why disappoint them?' I say to my players.

There is also the question of when you should make a decision. There are probably only two times to do so - too early and too late. If I was going to err on making one of those mistakes, I far preferred to make the decision earlier rather than later. That's much easier to say than to do.

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager.

The great leader knows that most success comes from making a few large decisions correctly rather than trying to be involved in making lots of small choices.

No matter what tribe you are in - you've got to hand it to the architects of the Brexit Referendum. Taking an incredibly complex decision and reducing it to a Yay or Nay vote is the perfect divide-and-conquer strategy. At a time when the 99% need to rise up against the 1% we are split right down the middle. An absolute guarantee of little change, ever.

The news was far from encouraging. The Germans were waging a stunningly successful campaign of blitzkrieg—lightning war—coordinating massed tank attacks with strikes from the air, in particular from a new dive bomber, the Junkers 87, which

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Learn to think continentally.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand.

Divide et impera(1) must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.(2)

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

A prudent chief not always must display His pow'rs in equal ranks, and fair array, But with th' occasion and the place comply, Conceal his force, nay seem sometimes to fly.

This book is about a diagram, a technology, and a management style. The

I hope to show in this book that it is through protocol that one must guide one's efforts, not against it.

Winter was traditionally a quiet time for armies, summer being the accepted and most civilized season to recommence killing the enemy.

Let us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Make a plan," Dad always said. "And if that doesn't work, make another one and if that doesn't work, you're probably the problem.