Quotes About Strategy

The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier ways of doing it.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.

A state that calculates that using a weapon or tactic of war is in its interest will generally find a way to do so.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

Judicious absence is a weapon.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Your mind is still the fastest weapon. You can run and run but you must be smart.

My game matches with Velasquez's. I won't be afraid to kick or punch him to avoid the takedowns because the ground game is my best weapon.

I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.

My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.