Quotes About Strategy

practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

I know how to ask for the money.' And that's the secret to the whole damn business.

Would Oppenheimer have lost his scholarship at Reed? Would he have been unable to convince his professors to move his classes to the afternoon? Of course not. And that's not because he was smarter than Chris Langan. It's because he possessed the kind of savvy that allowed him to get what he wanted from the world.

Because we trust implicitly, spies go undetected, criminals roam free, and lives are damaged. But Levine's point is that the price of giving up on that strategy is much higher. If everyone on Wall Street behaved like Harry Markopolos, there would be no fraud on Wall Street—but the air would be so thick with suspicion and paranoia that there would also be no Wall Street.

Sternberg'e göre pratik zeka, "kime ne söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek, bunu ne zaman söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek ve maksimum etki için bunu nas?l söyleyeceÄŸini bilmek" gibi ÅŸeyler içeriyor. Bu yöntemseldir: bir ÅŸeyi, neden bildiÄŸinizi bilmeden de, onu aç?klayamadan da nas?l yapaca??n?z? bilmekle ilgilidir. DoÄŸas? gereÄŸi pratiktir.

Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision

Algunos de estos nuevos pensadores afirman que si tuviésemos un mejor servicio de información, si pudiésemos verlo todo, no podríamos perder», dice el coronel Van Riper. «Lo que mi hermano dice siempre es: "Imagínate que estás mirando un tablero de ajedrez. ¿Hay algo que no veas? No. ¿Y eso te garantiza la victoria? Ni mucho menos, porque nunca podrás ver lo que está pensando el otro".

Just under a third of the time, the weaker country wins.

A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Any movement of the pyramid will cause it to topple over. Underneath the pyramid is a $100 bill. How do you remove the bill without disturbing the pyramid?

Hooker knew everything he could possibly know about his enemy. But it didn't help him. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Poor parents tend to follow[...] a strategy of accomplishment of natural growth.

Solomon was faced day in, day out with a version of the same problem that had faced Neville Chamberlain and the British diplomatic service in the fall of 1938: he was asked

the question that my book leaves us with: If David beat Goliath—if, in fact, Davids beat Goliaths all the time, if adversity is a great teacher, if resources ultimately become self-defeating—why doesn't that change the way we make sense of the world?

hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense.

The plan was okay—basically okay—but here we are trying to find something to win the war the easy way, and there ain't no such animal.

T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.