Quotes About Strategy

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

For me, it's about making sure the mental side of my game is in a good place; if it is, then it's just about backing your ability when you are out in the middle and doing what you can for the team.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

Diversifying the business is definitely a good thing.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

It's always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it's the Europa League or Champions League.

If you're manager, you're always responsible for the good times and the bad times. Every time you don't win a game you think if you could have done it another way.

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wouldn't acknowledge that there was an insurgency. (Rumsfeld was old enough to know, from Vietnam days, that defeating an insurgency required a counterinsurgency strategy, which in turn would leave tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq for years, maybe decades—whereas he just wanted to get in, get out, and move on to oust the next tyrant standing in the way of America's post–Cold War dominance.) Out

As for a plan of action, the group fell back on the usual punt by panels of this sort when they don't know what else to do: it recommended the creation of a presidential commission.

Human history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning contributions of the weak

history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning

Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon — and, perhaps, one other . . .

By the hedgehog,' said the smaller, grinning wickedly, 'but they'll think twice before they play at ambuscades again!

This time their preparations were well thought out. The Mouser carried a mallet and a stout iron pry-bar, in case they had to attack masonry, and made certain that candles, flint, wedges, chisels, and several other small tools were in his pouch. Fafhrd borrowed a pick from the peasant's implements and tucked a coil of thin, strong rope in his belt. He also took his bow and quiver of arrows.

chess fir-ma-ment. Morphy, Angler, Judy Kaplan....

he was a sporadically ardent chess player now in the midst of a sporad.

When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

It matters also that both Henry and his daughter Elizabeth were not just rulers but consummate performers, masters of political propaganda and political theater. They

So just by shifting income from a taxable state to a no tax state you are saving money.

The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.