Quotes About Strategy

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.

GOP leaders need to let go of their ego factions and come together with one primary goal in mind: keeping 'Billary' from getting back into the Oval Office.

In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us.

My primary job is to score runs and make KKR win, and that's what I am trying to do. Rest, I don't think too much. That's how I have always played my game.

Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.

As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation's response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.

China should be America's primary national security focus going forward.

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.

Paying extra for prime placement can often pay off.

The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's office or President's office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.

We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we're getting out of at all.

One of the most difficult decisions for any prime minister is when to give up on a bad but long-cherished policy.

Prime minister Manmohan Singh has put the country on global platform by adopting the right economic measures.

We have to be eyes-wide-open with China. If I'm prime minister, we will have a serious, mature approach with China that I think shows our concerns with them on the global stage.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.

When Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric, he was able to produce record growth year after year by using a few simple principles relentlessly. The system of management he used was called differentiation.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.

The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.