Quotes About Strategy

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Taking one step, doing one thing every day that will get you closer to your own financial dream.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

You can't have a plan for your day, 'til you have a plan for your life.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Treat your life like a game.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.