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Quotes About Strategy

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
~ Simon Sinek
If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.
~ Sparky Anderson
The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.
~ Warren Buffett
Never undervalue the enemies, especially if they are stupid.
~ William C. Brown
Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
~ Winston Churchill
Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.
~ Jeffrey Fry
Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.
~ Robin Hobb, City of Dragons
One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.
~ Dougie Brimson, Top Dog
Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
~ Cara Black
I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.
~ Mary, Queen of Scots
Build and they will come' is not a strategy, it's a prayer.
~ Steve Blank
Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.
~ Wesley L Duewel
In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.
~ Groucho Marx
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
~ John R. Allen
She had conquered them, as she would conquer so many in the years to come, by goodness rather than strength. It is a sorrowfully rare strategem.
~ William Napier
When the game begins, let your rook remain in its position as the knight and the bishop advance to occupy the empty squares created by the moved pawns.
~ William Pearson
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
~ William Penn
One portfolio is better than another one when it offers higher mean return for a given level of volatility—or a lower volatility for a given level of return.
~ William Poundstone
The strategy is to bet your entire bankroll each race, apportioning it among the horses according to your informed estimate of each horse's chance of winning.
~ William Poundstone
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
~ William Prescott