Quotes About Strategy

To be popular with girls, a man must do the wrong thing at the right time.

A country without nukes is like a person without martial arts, they can't defend themselves properly.

Take small steps with a long-term perspective.

3PO advised, "I suggest a new strategy, Artoo-Detoo. Let the Wookiee win." R2-D2 answered with a surprised beep. Chewbacca chortled happily. When Ben felt somewhat recovered, he resumed watching Luke's practice with the remote. Luke's eyes followed the remote with intense concentration, but his movements were stiff, not relaxed. Ben said

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

Two years after Duveen died, Kress bought all the pictures that had been hanging fire. Duveen went right on selling.

No wonder Gran had managed to run a brewery with such success for the past twenty-two years. She was a Machiavelli in skirts.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

This was my first lesson about gambling: fi you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

One idea alone is a tactic, but if it can be executed a number of different ways, it becomes a great strategy.

Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

By the time I wrote this book I had begun to finally figure out that: a) there was a direct relationship between my behavior and those attempts on my life: b) maybe my previous strategy of becoming better at violence instead of not pissing off people needed to be reviewed: c) that there were knowable 'rules' in different environments: d) you could learn them so as not to run afoul with point A.

As Eisenhower said (in a very different context to be sure, but the point applies here as well), "plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Epictetus nicely likened this process to gaming: "The counters are indifferent and the dice are indifferent: how do I know which way they will fall? But to use the throw carefully and skillfully, that is my job.

The model for the application of your principles is the boxer rather than the gladiator, The gladiator puts down or takes up the sword he uses, but the boxer always has his hands and needs only to clench them into fists. p117

The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and then let each person find his own route toward those outcomes.

And the only reason that "running around your backhand" has become an idiom for avoiding a weakness is that this is exactly what we see great tennis players do, time and time again, whether it's Juan Martín del Potro, Rafael Nadal, or countless others. The phrase describes the act of avoiding a weakness in order to play to a strength, and the lesson from the best is that this leads toward high performance, not away from it.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.