Quotes About Strategy

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

People call me all the time and say, "Man, your players aren't signed yet." Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.

If you go into a battle, it's better to win the first time.

a real live count ought to be a passport for them [the Gould family] into the innermost of the inner circles, which privilege they so much crave,' said the New York World, showing a lively appreciation of the truth that the simplest way for a family to elevate itself into the top level of New York society was through the strategic marriage of a daughter.

A little hypocrisy gets me a lot further than my old method of saying exactly what I think.

All's fair in love and war.

When the tiger executes a merger with the goat, which one walks away?

The eyes of a vengeful man miss few details he can turn to advantage.

there was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.

Betrayal was the name of the game—to get what he'd have, to use every weapon in his arsenal

Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.