Quotes About Strategy

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

How many kings are governed by their ministers — how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? He, as it seems to me, who can see through the others, and possesses strength or skill enough to make their power or passions subservient to the execution of his own designs. January

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

Life's a pitch, and then you buy.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

I think life is a big game we play.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.