Quotes About Strategy

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Politicians use economics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination. —variation on a theme of Andrew Lang (1910)

There are far more cases in which politicians knew what they wanted to do, and then just leaned on economics—sometimes very bad economics—for support.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

Life is just like a game, First you have to learn rules of the game, And then play it better then any one else.

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

If I were given one hour to save the world, I would spend 50 minutes defining the problem.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Elige a personas mayores para que sean tus enemigos. Ellos mueren. Tú ganas (Albert Einstein)

Planung ersetzt Zufall durch Irrtum.

Los mayores triunfos de la propaganda se han logrado, no haciendo algo, sino impidiendo que ese algo se haga

The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back

The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation as a whole. We are playing a game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan.

En la política, querido Gerardo, lo sabes como yo: no hay hombres, si no ideas; no hay sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino que se suprime un obstáculo...

leader had expected that the Europeans would help him overwhelm American intransigence. He had assumed that

There are no people in politics, only the ideas. There're no feelings, but only interests. In politics one does not kill a man, but removes an obstacle.

Be prudent like Nestor and cunning like Odysseus.

Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money

An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times.

So far, the only people who've made money from trading systems are their sellers.