Quotes About Strategy

As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.

You just want to put the ball in play, whether I want to throw it downfield and it's not there, so I check it down, and it's a productive play and let the running back get a first down. Just keep the chains moving.

I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.

I think that's particularly important in the playoffs when you're facing good pitching. You've got to go up and just anyway you can try to be productive.

You don't try to have the very lowest cost of an asset. You try to have the right asset. So rather than thinking about the lowest cost, the question is how do you get the best productivity.

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

I'm in a profession where if you're planning more than six months ahead, you're doing it wrong!

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Just knowing the game of basketball, it's important to be able to see it from a different perspective, not only offensively but also defensively.

I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you manage designers.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

Selling and telling are two different things. In politics, we sell ideas.

It is not true that Sarri did not defend, indeed all of his work starts from there. But it's a different way to defend, in a much more advanced area of the pitch.

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.

We know what the customer wants, and so we're buying in a totally different way.

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

I played Zidane throughout my career, and for many players you reach a point where you learn lessons on how to handle them. But from the first match I played against him to the last, Zidane would find different ways to beat me.

Everybody has different ways of playing the game.

In China, the government is involved in business in many different ways. They're involved in media and business. When you go to China, you have to rethink how you're doing everything. You have to become Chinese.

He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.

There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.