Quotes About Strategy

If wars were fought only by the men on the ground, the men facing one another in real battle, most wars would end quickly and sensibly. Men are smart and men are animals, in that they don't want to die so simply for so little.

Planning is important. Your paper has limits: don't fence more land than you can plow.

Allan Dulles said it best: "Any intelligence service worth its salt can make the other fellow's currency." In other words, every nation needs to have its own airtight security measures, while at the same time be actively working in secret to reverse engineer those of the enemy faster than they can invent them.

This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.

Ne feledjék el – mondta [Patton] nekik [a katonáinak] egy alkalommal –, soha egyetlen fattyú sem nyert háborút azzal, hogy meghalt a hazájáért. Csak úgy gyÅ'znek, ha elérik, hogy a másik rohadék haljon meg az Å' hazájáért!

He's suffering from Politician's Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

A chief reason for an unrealistic price rise, inflation, poor employment generation & economic recession is 'Right Person in Wrong Position' leading to implementation of ineffective policy & defective strategy and thereby imperilling the GDP (Growth, Development & Progress) of the nation.

A clever way often for a person to get the biggest footage in a tv show is to say that he wants to hug the contestant by coming up over the stage.

A company, which asks the job-seeking candidates to give it in writing a road-map as how they are going to make it grow as a condition or clause for their hiring, is most likely making a great financial loss and most probably its boss is seriously contemplating only to close down that particular business on gross.

A crafty wolf does not mind to find the support from the cunning foxes and rather enjoys only.

A new offering is not necessarily always an improved version of an old, but sometimes it could be re-launching of the same product with an attractive packaging by doing lots of advertising.

A person who can actually see may only look into their tactics that it is not a ban,but an indirect way of its promotional campaign.

A stock market trader can make more money by daily intraday selling than by buying shares as the price rises very slowly and rarely but goes down often very sharply

Bring on board a business tycoon and then there will be a big game played behind the game that is being played on the field.

Game plan is bigger than the match plan only in that sport where a lot of money is involved.

One of the key reasons for an economic recession is that some right persons are at the wrong locations and not able to reach up to the deserved key positions and that's what leading to an implementation of the ineffective policies & the defective strategies, which eventually are only impairing the GDP (growth, development & progress) of the nation.

Only in motivational story, the timber merchant boss will give the woodcutter the relaxing and learning time to sharpen his axe and increase the productivity; but in cruel business world, the boss will screw him up if the number of cutting trees decreases. Be practical not theoretical.

Stadium ground is for merely sports playing and not for displaying acting skills by the batsman, bowler and fielder.

The bigger the controversy, the bigger the chance of it being either a diversionary tactics or mere publicity.

The easiest way to get the chairperson to adjourn the session is to jointly create ruckus and commotion in a pre-decided fashion in the midst of deliberation and discussion.

The fifty years of a company's glorious growth story do not guarantee its equivalent business rise even for the next fifty days in a fast-changing, competitive world of an internet age.

There is no stiff competition in a business space regardless of what market news says until all companies therein start hiring and multiplying their sales workforce from top to bottom.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.