Quotes About Strategy

Having money saved is not quite the same thing as having a plan, mind you—but it does start to make a girl feel as though a plan could someday be possible.

It's all just a game.

to assemble a plan for

this method? Yeah, sure. It works great. Till it kills you.

BUT HOW, EXACTLY, did one go about seducing a husband one hardly knew?

Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.

Next," she said, "we have to come up with tactics that work." "We could just do something stupid again, wait for them to pounce, and then surprise them by suddenly becoming brilliant," Martin said.

My point is that if you want something to happen, you must specify that something with great care and as much completeness as possible. Then, and only then, can you devise a strategy to accomplish what you really want—all of it—and not some little bit that turns out to be meaningless when everything else falls apart.

Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there's a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in the effort to get there.

Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

often studiously understated language of the U.S. Navy's

Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters

0001 knew what would happen. If everything went the way she planned it to go and if each part of this giant machine she's assembled performed her role effectively, she knew very well where the knife would wind up, but how did she know Harris Blanchard would be there?

Know your enemy," I murmured.

ingeniously left a forty-mile gap in the

Caesar described

have got Lee just where I want him; he must fight me on my own ground." So he waited to see what would happen—which was usually a fatal thing to do in the vicinity of Robert E. Lee.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."23

But politics was a bit like chess: you had to move with an eye on the whole board, with a 360-degree view of what would come next and the move after that.

Thanks to you, Gabs, we just figured out a half dozen ways not to rob the Henley.

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract him," Angus added. "Like the Bulgari job," Hamish said. "You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison?" Kat said. Angus shrugged. "Nobody said it was perfect.