Quotes About Strategy

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

To protect us from terrorism, we must have the best, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world.

How do we prevent attacks? How do we protect our people?I think we've got to have an intelligence surge, where we are looking for every scrap of information.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.