Quotes About Strategy

Don't agonise, organise.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

Never show a weapon before you have to use it

North Korean rulers do what they are doing not because they are "evil" or driven by some delusionary ideologies, but rather

North Korea is a small country with few resources and a moribund economy. In spite of all this, however, it has managed to survive and successfully manipulate larger players, including an impressive number of the great powers.

I was committing the most amateurish of errors—escalating my wagers in an attempt to get even—but

the racetrack results go through phases when certain methods succeed and certain methods fail.

Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father's property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one's eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket

I'm in this business for the defence of humanity,' he explained. 'You have to prepare for war to make peace.

We frequently hear software development leaders tell their staff, "We should operate like Netflix" (or one of these other leading companies). Of course you could do that. First, get yourself a few hundred thousand servers and tens of millions of users...

If you will the end, you must will the means.

The war that the officer corps prepared itself to fight was the war in which the prospects of actually having to fight were most remote. This made perfect sense.

As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist—particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic—were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.

Nothing has happened in right field all season, which is why he was put there: a kind of athletic Canada.

Putin's calculation is simple: a Ukraine with a permanent war in its eastern region will never be fully welcomed by Europe or the rest of the world.

but how are you going to get the rocks into her pack without her seeing?' 'I'm not going to put the rocks in her pack,' I say. 'You are.' 'Me?' says Danny. 'What

race. She drives in close and uses her wheel spike to destroy Terencius's wheel.

Being in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art