Quotes About Strategy

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

I know what it takes to win. I know a general election is going to come down to not only Republican voters but my ability to connect with independent and women voters.

Microtargeting, as its name implies, is a way to identify small but crucial groups of voters who might be won over to a given side, and which messages would do the trick.

We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.

The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.

I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.

To win in 2020, a Democratic nominee will need to win back voters in key Midwestern states who supported Trump in 2016.

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

It's hurting Democrats if you do really go profoundly negative in the primary. Most of them don't. They actually realize the most effective use of their money is to make sure they stand out in front of the voters and the voters understand their story.

Coach Kiffin calls plays based on matchups and what he sees.

You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.

The most important thing in IPL is to select the players. You don't get much time to develop a team so it's important to pick the right players.

My shot selection has to be good to score big runs.

Shot selection is very important because you don't want to lose wickets at the start and put pressure on the rest of the side.

I've grown into that more aggressive, more selfish basketball at times.

If the seller has a player that they think is going to have a lot of value, they're aware of it, protect that value. You have to go get it. That's the way the trade market works.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

People should look at building long-term businesses, not just selling a business.

There's a point where, sometimes, I'd rather wait a bit and get a fight that sells.

We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.