Quotes About Strategy

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else's country. Yes, I replied, when it is your own country you can not use it so scientifically. The Russians did, to trap Napoleon. Yes, but they had plenty of country. If you tried to retreat to trap Napoleon in Italy you would find yourself in Brindiri.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

For warfare, a man needs only his mind. But to win, it requires a talent and resources.

It was like mentioning one general favourably to another general. You could always mention a general, though, that the general you were talking to had beaten. The general you were talking to would praise the beaten general greatly and go happily into detail on how he had beaten him.

Do people catch a cunning dear without the dogs?

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

No plan survives contact with the enemy

When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

Sweat saves blood.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning

El sudor ahorra sangre, la sangre ahorra vidas, y el cerebro, las dos cosas.

One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;

The purpose of risk management is to improve the future, not to explain the past.

Management exists to keep the company on a steady course and provide reliability and predictability. Paradoxically, this can create blindspots that go beyond work processes and procedures, adversely affecting a company's core strategy.

Sharks have millions of years of preprogrammed strategies. Dolphins have cheat codes.

It wasn't just 'divide and conquer,'" said Kazikhanov. "It was 'divide, conquer, and tie up in trouble.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

It isn't always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.