Quotes About Strategy

Our experience with the consulting firm made it clear that energy is closely tied to how ideas get put into action.

Real strategists are warriors and must be willing and able to fight battles, to "see the elephant," as Civil War soldiers were fond of saying.

if you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs.

better than Sherman.

If an election were held here tomorrow," Fahd once confided to a colleague, "Bin Baz would beat us without even leaving his house.

Whoever wins society will win this war."says Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

It is a great mistake to reduce your enemy to a demon," Starik said. "It leaves you at a distinct disadvantage when you are attempting to outwit him.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

action in an absence of information is wasted effort

It's always easier to destroy than to create." - ANY GENERAL, ANY ARMY, ANY AGE.

It marked the first time an army fought a war while comprehensively attempting to mitigate cultural damage, and it was performed without adequate transportation, supplies, personnel, or historical precedent.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

The Innovator's Prescription,

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in

The idea that the Allies were up against a lunatic was even more terrifying than the prospect of battling a rational, though supremely evil, foe. At least you could try to outsmart a rational man; you could guess his next move and try to counteract it. A madman, on the other hand, couldn't be relied upon to act in even his own best interest. "As

Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

An image system is a strategy of motifs, a category of imagery embedded in the film that repeats in sight and sound from beginning to end with persistence and great variation, but with equally great subtlety, as a subliminal communication to increase the depth and complexity of aesthetic emotion.

Love relationships are political. An old Gypsy expression goes: "He who confesses first loses." The first person to say "I love you" has lost because the other, upon hearing it, immediately smiles a knowing smile, realizing that he's the one loved, so he now controls the relationship.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes.

Cut your losses early.