Quotes About Strategy

The Democrats, they don't think about long-term consequences for this country. They never do.

The presidency is not a collegial body... He will surround himself with people who share his vision.

From a planning standpoint, you want to surround a first-year head coach with quality coaches at all levels.

There's always people trying to do something to make a quick buck. But, if you plan on the long game, you can essentially guarantee success if you're willing to put in the work and if you surround yourself with the right team.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

I've been lucky to be surrounded by some good hockey minds.

I think the Premier League suits my game, but it also depends on who I have next to me because I need to be surrounded by players with certain characteristics.

I like surrounding myself with people who think in sort of the timeframes I do, which is often longer.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.

Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'

The 600 is survival. It's NASCAR's longest race.

I ended up going to public school in the first grade, and that's when I knew I had to be very strategic about my survival in school. I tried my best to be friends with people who were going to protect me.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

When you are playing the longer version, there are times when you don't have to get bat on ball on a regular basis but maybe a good leave outside the off stump can play its part in you surviving and the time that you would like to spend on the crease.

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.