Quotes About Strategy

I remember one time I asked Pete Rose, I was on first base, I said, "Pete why did you..." -- he fouled off about fifteen, and I could tell that he wasn't even trying to put them in play. He said he called it "sending the fans souvenirs" because he didn't like the guy on the mound.

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

To the degree we are ignorant of the way our adversary thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices—to that degree he will gain on us, prey on us, defraud us of what is ours and have or hold the greater portion.

Not everything you plan should reach the neighbour's ears.

The plan is useless; it's the planning that's important.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.