Quotes About Strategy

In any trade, you needed to make the other fellow think he was getting something extra

It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.

Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.

a victory of diplomacy did not come when everyone got what they wanted—that made everyone assume they'd gotten the better of her, which encouraged more extravagant demands. The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result. They must be satisfied enough to do as you wish, yet dissatisfied enough to know that you bested them.

The Father of Lies never lays simple plans

One of the first rules he'd learned in life was to never fight a man when you had an equal chance of losing.

I know something of taking an enemy into your bosom. His blade goes in quicker when he is close." With

It was beyond unwise to enter battle angry. Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.

Sometimes, Gareth Bryne had told her when she was a child, you find yourself outnumbered, with no path to slip away. Always do what your enemy least expects, Elayne. In that case, you must attack.

Battle was always a mess. The only neat battles were the ones in stories or history books.

Do we fight? If we do, then know that in battle there is only winning and losing. Rules against hurting are for games.

Maighdin knows she has to be careful," she said in a firm voice. "She will be here soon, Alliandre." "And if she is caught?" "She won't be!" Faile said sharply. If she was. . . . No. She had to think of victory, not defeat. Faint hearts never won. (Crossroads of Twilight, The Wheel of Time series, book 10 by Robert Jordan)

You have to trim your sails to take advantage of how the wind is blowing. Think coolly, and you make it back to shore. Get your neck hot, and you'll drown.

Bloody ashes, but that had been a fun game. She had had the better of him time and again. Light send him plenty of women who could do that, though not in rapid succession, and always when he knew how to find the back door. Tuon was one. Come to think of it, he would probably never need another.

A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.

Bir sava?? kazanman?n ilk ve en önemli kural?, düÅŸman?n?n ne yapaca??n? bilmektir.

I don't intend getting close enough to the fighting to need armor. A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.

En kötü olas?l?klar için plan yapmak iyidir, ama onlar?n a??rl??? alt?nda ezilmemen gerek. Sabit fikir haline getirmemelisin. Bir kraliçe, her ÅŸeyden önce, umut sahibi olmal?d?r.

The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow.

A trap isn't really a trap if you know it's there," he said absently, bending the end of one of the severed wires a little to line up better with its mate. "If you know it's there, maybe you can see a way to walk in so it isn't a trap at all.

The general who leads in the front of battle is a fool.

A crafty enemy," Caldin said heatedly before Reene had gone five paces, "will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.