Quotes About Strategy

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

You don't win games by batting long periods of time.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

Today, campaigning isn't an 'interruption' but a permanent condition. Indeed, if you are a successful campaigner, it's expected you'll be a successful president.

In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

How you handle the obstacles has a big impact on how you do. If you give up, then you obviously don't get there, but if you're persistent, and you keep thinking of new ways to approach the business, you're more likely to reach your goal.

If you under-invest in these areas of crisis, it becomes a persistent drag on growth.

In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

You must spend money to make money.

Aumentar los impuestos antes de generar prosperidad es como poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Once being hard pressed in wrestling, and fearing to be thrown, he got the hand of his antagonist to his mouth, and bit it with all his force; and when the other loosed his hold presently, and said, "You bite, Alcibiades, like a woman." "No," replied he, "like a lion." Another

Being consulted again whether it were requisite to enclose the city with a wall, [Lycurgus] sent them word, 'The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick'.

The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by habituating them to defend themselves.

That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

So they cut their hair short in front, that their enemies might not grasp it. And they say that Alexander of Macedon for the same reason ordered his generals to have the beards of the Macedonians shaved, because they were a convenient handle for the enemy to grasp.

The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.