Quotes About Strategy

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

As a street hustler, you've got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Margaret Thatcher and John Major knew that bluff and bravado doesn't work in Brussels.

No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once - raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.

The first thing I heard when I got in the business - not from my mentor - was, 'Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.' I'm here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

The first thing you always do is seek out the best people that you can find for your organization. If you find the best people, you can basically go anywhere you want to go because they will take you there.

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

Defense, in the game, is something that I just really enjoy. Some people enjoy assisting the ball. Some people like to score, score, score, but to me the first thing that comes up is defense.

Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It's the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.

If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

Dominating the midfield is the most important thing in modern football. To succeed, you have to be good at everything.

The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.

I believe the most important thing for the defender is to take the ball away from the opposing team, no matter what, and not to allow any space or give any occasions for opponents to score goals.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.