Quotes About Strategy

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

When you're in politics you've got to play the game.

Rice assumed her duty was to translate Bush's instincts and intuition into policy. Instincts and intuition are a poor substitute for reasoned analysis. [...] "He was feeling his way," said Cheney.

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once energy is no longer projected in strategy and end-gaining it returns to a state of equilibrium where everything remains peaceful and points towards silent awareness, within which all thoughts and perceptions come and go.

My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.

Crime is a career, whether you are a practitioner or an investigator, and it requires intuition and patience.

Mike Kelleher from Obama's Senate office was the person who stepped up to tackle the mess… He built the staff, drew up a ten-page strategic plan for the mail-room, wrote algorithms for a mail coding system, set up a casework decision tree, assembled a library of policy-response letters, and developed quality-control manuals.

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Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Success is rarely determined by the quality of your ideas. But it is frequently determined by the quality of your execution.

We start with the customer and we work backward. We learn whatever skills we need to service the customer. We build whatever technology we need to service the customer.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

The greatest enthusiasm in the world won't make up for a business plan that doesn't work.

Man fights with his mind. His hands and his weapons are simply extensions of his will, and one of the fallacies of our era is the notion that equipment is the equivalent of force.

commander may be forgiven for being defeated, but never for being surprised.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

The perfect plan was the kind that had every chance of success, but if it fell apart it had the potential to explode and create a beautiful chaos to navigate at speed, and that was generally the secret goal all along.

Running away from your fears is a losing strategy. — Jeff Keller

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all¨

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.