Quotes About Strategy

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

If you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don't have a clear vision, no strategy will save you.

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.

Success is the residue of planning.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Chess demands total concentration

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.