Quotes About Strategy

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

Life is a game; so we should know very well how to play it.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

He sent messengers ahead to meet Alexander and offered him half his kingdom and his daughter in marriage, if only he would agree not to fight. 'If I were Alexander, I'd take it,' said Alexander's friend, Parmenios. 'And so would I, if I were Parmenios,' was Alexander's reply.

That power of holding on to an image that Ruskin describes so admirably is not the power of the eidetic; it is that faculty of keeping a large number of relationships present in one's mind that distinguishes all mental achievement, be it that of the chess player, the composer, or the great artist.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

But much more important than that, only one in "I don't know how many thousands" will take a large notepad, write the problem at the top of the page, and then deliberately turn on his thinking apparatus.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

During the Cold War, there was a theory. That one agent, in the right place, at the right time...with the right skills...could be more effective than an army.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

methodology

This is the overarching project manager, or leader. The Product Owner manages the Product Backlog.

Change requires decision making, and decision making requires action. Most churches don't make turnarounds because they never get to the action. Discussion only begets more discussion. Together, and led by the pastor, the church must decide on a course of action.

Belief followed by strategy and culture moves people to community.

Whenever you hold a three-card sequence or longer at the head of your suit you always lead the top card of the sequence. The top of a sequence rule takes precedence over the fourth-highest rule.

TIP: When holding two long suits, one of which contains a sequence, you should lead the suit with the sequence.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Organizational analyses that show separate boxes for "culture" and "strategy" are making a fundamental conceptual error. Strategy is an integral part of the culture.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

When in doubt, win the trick.