Quotes About Strategy

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life.