Quotes About Strategy

Nature demands variety, for men. It stands to reason, it's a part of the procreational strategy. It's Nature's Plan. Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different clothes, in the old days? To trick the men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Having no friends, I must make do with enemies.

One by one I could handle them, but if they combined into a mob of three I would have trouble. Divide and conquer would be my motto.

There are other colors, pink for instance: pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got onto this. Pale-pink helmets, with rosettes, a whole battalion, onto the beachhead, over the top in pink. Now is the time for me to make the switch, I could use a little pink right now.

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

One must always keeps both sides in one's head; it's the only way to anticipate the moves of one's opponent

He hated being dumped, even though he himself had manoeuvred the event into place.

Actually, they took turns trying to avoid being the victims. That's the whole point about war!

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Not

If in doubt, play dumb," said Ada

Ah, but who will bell the cat?" "I am not sure what you mean." "It is a country saying. A council of mice met to decide what to do about the tomcat who was on the loose. They agreed the best plan was to attach a bell to his neck so they could hear him coming and hide. It was a fine plan—but it needed a mouse brave enough to risk his life jumping on the cat.

British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.