Quotes About Strategy

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

They kept playing until Gervaso had won more than five thousand dollars and quit because he was drawing too much attention.

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

it's best we not keep all our eggs in one basket.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

There was no path to victory when you couldn't attack into the heart of enemy territory for fear of collateral damage. Collateral damage! God help you if you killed some civilians, even if those were the very people supporting and enabling our enemies. Had that philosophy held sway in World War II, every American would now be speaking Japanese or German.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

What Carnegie had to know personally and what he knew better than anyone else was costs. One could not control a market, although Carnegie was a superb salesman, but one could, one had to, control costs.

Above all, those with a strategic sense argued that the US had to challenge Russia over Ukraine as a warning to China over its possible ambitions in the South China Sea and Taiwan.

Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?

Conditions plus principles determine strategy.

People generally prefer problem-avoidance and problem-containment to problem-solving.

efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

IF YOU DON'T PLAN YOUR PLAN, IT WILL REMAIN A DREAM

Mangement Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail*

For example, before World War II, the U.S. government called the department that wages war the "War Department." After the war, they decided to call it the "Defense Department." This change has come about because the government does not want to admit that it starts wars. Rather it wants to manipulate people into thinking that it only defends the country against aggressive others. In short, politically, the word "defense" sells better than the word "war.

Women's evolved strategic responses to male demonism have included countermeasures and defiance, but they also included collaboration. That is to say, while men have evolved to be demonic males, it seems likely that women have evolved to prefer demonic males (or imitation demonic males) as mates.

We have to use instead of the weapon of criticism, the criticism of weapons.

Strategic thought is needed in missionary work. From the point of view of salvation, all souls are equal. From the view of missionary strategy, they are not equal.