Quotes About Strategy

Though this guard is natural to them, yet they vary every moment, to perplex their adversaries,

The enmity of your enemy teaches you to defend yourself and your interests.

The tricky ones cannot survive without doing tricks.

You started an ugly game on my ground, but at the end of that, I will do, not you. You are going to be the lead news that I own.

People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?

The battlefield is no place for jokes

Kalau orang tanpa kecerdasan memadai mencoba mengandalkan kecerdikannya, berarti dia bermain api.

Orang dengan pikiran berliku-liku tak pernah sungguh-sungguh mengenali lawannya. Ia seperti pemburu yang mengejar rusa tanpa melihat gunung-gunung di sekelilingnya.

What if the bird will not sing? Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!" Hideyoshi answers, "Make it want to sing." Ieyasu answers, "Wait." This book, Taiko, is the story of the man who made the bird want to sing.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

The results of the trends research overwhelmingly indicated that the role of the TD professional has moved beyond the traditional realm of training design and delivery. Effective talent development requires a proactive, business-partner approach to anticipate and respond to changing needs and to leverage personal capabilities to support organizational strategy and generate competitive advantage.

In short, somewhere inside you there is a Machiavelli. Yes, he is a ruthless manipulator; but no prince, especially a kind one, would stay in power long without at least one advisor with as remorseless a point of view as that of the enemies a prince will surely have. The trick is to listen well but keep Machiavelli in his place.

in the first two years the child adapts an overall strategy or mental representation of the world which can be quite enduring.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

A man can protect himself with fists or sword but his best weapon is his intellect.

Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision.

Non sa niente di come si fa a mazzate: mai perdere di vista l'avversario, al rione non si facevano chiacchiere, al massimo si lanciavano urla a occhi sbarrati per mettere paura e intanto si colpiva per primi, facendo male il più possibile, senza fermarsi, toccava agli altri fermarti se ne erano capaci.

I'm still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it's a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical.

Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember. Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.