Quotes About Strategy

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.