Quotes About Strategy

As a midfielder, when you have sealed things up at the back, my job is to provide the ammunition for the strikers and forwards, to create opportunities for them.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja.

Thus strategists hesitate over the map, the few pins and lines of coloured chalk, contemplating a change in the pins and lines, a matter of inches, which outside the room, out of sight of the studious officers, may engulf the past, present and future in ruin or life. She was a symbol to herself then, lacking the life of both child and woman; victory and defeat were changes of pin and line; she knew nothing of war.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

In his pursuit of economic modernization, Deng liked to say that he was groping for stones as he crossed the river.

Deng reaffirmed as well the correctness of the party's strategic goal of quadrupling the economy between 1980 and 2000 and making China a moderately developed country by the middle of the twenty-first century.

did not require the proposed sale of U.S. FX-15 fighter jets. At the end of their discussion, Reagan asked Lee Kuan Yew to carry the message to Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo that it would be difficult to supply all of Taiwan's requests and that President Chiang should not press for high-tech weapons at the moment, but that he, President Reagan, would not let Chiang down. A

a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain

After all what is brilliance? Merely the tact to sow when no one is looking and reap when every one is.

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

Two out of every three professional officers considered that wars were made for armies and not armies for wars.

Gloria had been sorry for him but she had judged it best not to show it. In a final burst of kindness she had tried to make him hate her, there at the last.

Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

That's it, she'd buy some off a dead man and she could put them in a box and take them to important meetings and bang them on the table to get her way. Maybe she'd buy four…

wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.

war is not just an act of policy but a true political instrument.

through preparation, early action, and intelligent responses, we can quickly flatten its trajectory.

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?