Quotes About Strategy

Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

It is the strategy which is appropriate to our cause and to our purpose--the strategy of truth--the strategy which opposes to the frauds and the deceits by which our enemies have confused and conquered other peoples, the simple and clarifying truths by which a nation such as our must guide itself.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war; and this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Victory is the end of generalship.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Though your game is hardly the best You can fray your opponent's nerves By methodically bouncing the ball At least ten times before your serves.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It is called an eraser

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don't get it out there, if people don't know about it, you have nothing.

My fellow Republicans acted like they'd been punched in the stomach. "You have them on the ropes, go in for the kill!" they said. This was my first real taste of the new Republican ideology that any compromise is a sign of weakness.

No matter what you do in life, you have to have a business mind and educate yourself about money.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'