Quotes About Strategy

The problem with most people who play the market is that they are not flexible.

The problem with just wanting to punt it deep and out of bounds every time is that most punters can't do that. Most guys shank and pull their kicks when they try that, so you have to get a guy who punts the ball high and gets hang time.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.

I may believe in something, but if it is not working and is not giving returns, we have to close it down because that is the right thing to do for the shareholders.

Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.

Trade sales are the bulk of exits, and there's no shame in that. Sometimes, it's exactly the right thing to do.

It doesn't matter what play is called, you have to run that play and you have to be successful on it. It just comes down to execution, all 11 players doing the right thing.

I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.

Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their companies where people are having to jump from the last 'great idea' to yet another unproven-and-about-to-be-poorly-executed one.

Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter-skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don't do the right thing.

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

I used to play 'Grand Theft Auto 4' and used to have a little community and we were some of the best players online.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.