Quotes About Strategy

All governments require enemy governments.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

Two men are walking in the woods. A ferocious grizzly bear charges at them and they start to run. While running, they shout: Man 1: We'll never outrun the bear. Man 2: I don't have to. My only question is "Can I outrun you?

If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.

No manager ever got fired for buying IBM.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

The very worst fire plan is no plan. The next worse is two plans.

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

Curling is sweeping the nation.

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

If curling were easy, they'd call it hockey.

A enemigo que huye puente de plata [If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge].

Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary: so he died.

Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life.

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.

Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth Drove all the snakes from Ireland, here's a drink to his health! But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!

When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.

When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your picnic table will keep the campsites on either side vacant.

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.