Quotes About Strategy

Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight." "Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight.

But how do we get the last Faceless One to go back through?" "We're going to let it chase us." "Us?" "Well, I say 'us'. I mean you." "Terrific," Valkyrie muttered.

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain. Let

Business is about seduction. To increase market size, we have to seduce customers who have never used our product or service.

Often in business we take decisions based on how we interpret the situation, not being sure of whether the call we have taken will work or not. When it works, we are often taken by surprise. But the world at large demands an explanation.

Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain.

If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

Those who rush up a peak without a plan often end up in the valley below - as food for vultures.

You don't smack the water with your paddle if you wish to catch fish.

So many decisions are destroyed by people's discussion on problems about the implementation. He worked always on the basis of let's get the principle agreed first and then farm out the implementation to somebody else.

Rahm Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." There was a short window for the new Obama administration, "an opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

press, and Connolly had a plan, a work-in-progress

Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. Fuck them.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Message is more important than money. Issues are more central than image. Strategy matters more than tactics. Positives work better than negatives. Substance is more salient than scandal. Issues are more powerful than image, and strategy more important than spin. The more partisan you are, the less effective you will be.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

All sports are games of inches.

Being a teacher taught me how to be organized, to have a game plan in English, History, Math. The same discipline carried over into coaching. If you are an efficient and effective coach, you start off every day with a plan. You don't just walk in there and roll out the ball. You've organized what you are going to do. You break down your offenses, your defenses, your individual skills.

Now the spotlight comes on and I'm saying to myself, 'Earvin, you don't play the game above the rim. You play it cerebrally. You play it in an intelligent way and just be who you are.

It's not how high you jump, how fast you run. All you guys here can run faster, jump higher. But I'll tell you, I can get my friend Larry Bird and the two of us will play any two of you and when it's all said and done, we will get the last laugh.