Quotes About Strategy

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Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That

from The Art of War by Sun-tzu: To fail to take the battle to the enemy when your back is to the wall is to perish.

En el plano estratégico, Gran Bretaña era un portaaviones amarrado de continuo en la costa europea y tenía muchísimo espacio para cubiertas de despegue.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

I had to wonder, though, if there's something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to. I mean, there's a reason more women are attracted to Dracula than repelled by him. I made a resolution to myself. From now on, I'd assume that every man I was attracted to was a murderer until proven otherwise. Perhaps it wasn't the most promising strategy for starting a relationship, but I might live longer.

You can aim at a duck and get it in your sights, but the duck is always moving. In order to hit the duck, you have to move your gun. But a committee faced with a major decision can't always move as quickly as the events it's trying to respond to. By the time the committee is ready to shoot, the duck has flown away.

The trouble with you, Phil, is that you went to Harvard, where they taught you not to take any action until you've got all the facts. You've got ninety-five percent of them, but it's going to take you another six months to get that last five percent. And by the time you do, your facts will be out of date because the market has moved on you. That's what life is all about—timing.

Caroline are definitely the people to carry it out." Men of ambition understood men of ambition

Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.

I must make a plan," he murmured aloud.

Once outside, the man stopped, lifted his head, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, as if the air smelled wonderful to him. Then he turned to Jimmy, his expression hard and serious. We will need an army. Uh, I don't exactly have one of those handy.

Premature action alerts the opposition.

So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy.

Plans give you a list of tasks to keep you from drowning in your own fear. Plans give you a feeling of control, even if it's just an illusion at the time.

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it.

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.