Quotes About Strategy

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?

Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.

It's the coach's job to pick the system, we just try and implement it as best as we can.

The whole process to raise stars is very systematic.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

Blue Team! It's what's for breakfast!

I can't stand these guys who go into a game and can't wait to shake hands when the game is over, you know, nice game, all that.... For me, back in those days, when we lost, we got out of there. We're not congratulating them, we're figuring out, if we play them again, what are we gonna do to beat the hell out of them.

If they think we got an edge, we got an edge.

You can't win without the ball.

I think it's very difficult for one man to beat you. Chamberlain once popped off, he says, "Give me five guys named Joe and I'll beat anybody around here." And they got him five guys on a playground and beat the hell out of him. It's not a one man game.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Baseball is only dull to dull minds

A couple of rabbits were being chased by a pack of coyotes. They stopped in a haystack, and one rabbit said to the other, "We gonna make a run for it, or stay here and outnumber them?"

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.

Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?" He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear. If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained.

The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.

those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.

The natural strategic orientation of many companies is toward retaining existing customers and seeking further segmentation opportunities.