Quotes About Strategy

Certainly, 'creativity' has been a vital plank of New Labour strategy. It not only hands out money with the enthusiasm of a Medici, but also invites the talented arts world into the very heart of government.

During rallies, it's always crucial to make Nadal cover the whole width of the court. He likes to camp out in his backhand corner, spearing that big off-forehand diagonally across the court. So the backhand down the line is a vital shot, because it moves Nadal out of his most favoured position.

Both when you defend and when you attack it needs to be about possession and positioning is vital.

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.

You need people who are vocal on the pitch to give information at different times of the game.

We need a clear plan to put radical Islamic terrorism out of vogue, and it should be eliminated at its roots. American SOF are part of the puzzle, but they do not, by themselves, complete the picture.

The evolution at 'Teen Vogue' is not a result of dinosaurs in a board room coming up with a strategy to reach the kids.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act.

Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations and helped to dampen his volatile mood swings.

We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.

The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies.

I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.

We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.

I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

It's not a matter of being first, it's being there at the right time, being first in volume to market, and knowing what trends to stay away from.

I'm not chasing mail volume down because I'm going where we see growth. That's what we need to do.

We are not selling the black cab in large enough volumes. We want to expand globally.

Put on the game tape. The game tape speaks volumes because I'm in live action, I'm out there making reads, going through progressions, redirection protection, signaling hot routes, getting the offense in and out of the right play.

Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

Power works best when it is indirect - never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.