Quotes About Strategy

You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method produces numerous results

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

LACROSSE MATCH

Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. Wait! Just wait, she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan? Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. No, he said. No plan.

Wait, said Butler. Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan. He squinted through the green dome. What is your plan, Artemis? All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune. A plan that could topple civilizations and plunge the planet into a cross-species war. He was twelve years old at the time…

Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so wäre.

desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

And the motive for all this subterfuge? Simple. Something his Nano had told him a long time ago. "People buy comfort," she had said, slitting a pig's throat with a corn sickle. "If you make them comfortable, then they will buy whatever you are selling." The combination of wisdom and arterial blood spray was irresistible and Hillman never forgot his grandmother's lesson.

Know thine enemy

Myishi will kick Phonetix's butt next quarter.

Successful negotiations are invariably conducted from a position of power, or at least the perception of power. Strolling into a meeting wearing a comfortable robe and smelling of incense, with a sincere desire to iron out difficulties, is, perversely, a surefire way to get everyone killed.

Immer zwei Schritte voraus, unser Master Artemis. Die Leute sagten, er sei ganz aus dem alten Holz geschnitzt. Doch sie irrten sich. Master Artemis war aus nagelneuem Holz, von einer Sorte, die noch keiner gesehen hatte.

Really, Commander. Holly—Captain Short is only here because I tricked her.

Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

Other than hunting down the terrorists responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001, Amerine suspected that the United States had no comprehensive plan, military or otherwise.

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

In this business, he who shot last died first