Quotes About Strategy

I know a trick worth two of that.

I know the disciplines of wars.

There is a method to madness!

The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

My aim then was, to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat We

Take Away Their Stick If the other's reaction to our No is to hurt or threaten us, our first instinct may be to hurt them back. A more effective strategy, however, is to neutralize the impact of their behavior. If, as in the story of the Zen master, they are threatening to hit you with a stick, don't hit them back; just take away the stick. In other words, don't attack the other, but simply remove their ability to attack you.

The only long-term, high-confidence strategy for the world not to be overwhelmed by terrorism is for economic development to go so well that terrorists have no place to incubate or hide...Perhaps the easy step is for the United States to give recognition to poor countries that make the needed changes by themselves. Thus part of the U.S. strategy for global economic development should be "inclusion", rather than the "preemption" and "intervention" of the fight against terrorism.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

The evidence points, first of all, to the importance of developing visions of the future.

In the east in the summer of 1942, the Germans embarked on a strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union by conquering the Caucasus and large portions of southern Russia. The resources available for such wide-ranging aims were completely inadequate.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose