Quotes About Strategy

Black Jack did not object to sending his men into the French and British lines under American command, but he did not want them dispersed.

In an otherwise perfectly mediocre presidency, the one savvy thing John F. Kennedy did, at least for his own reputation, was to bring these Cambridge intellectuals on board.

He never bragged about how well he had done in business, but it was clear that he was pleased by the fact that, living by his few tight moral maxims—keep your overhead low, don't live beyond your means, always put something away for a rainy day—he had come out a winner. Always a methodical businessman, my

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.

The real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see how splendidly we've done nonetheless. France wins wars and is in a continual state of crisis. Germany loses and prospers.

I sometimes think of myself as Fortinbras — ha, ha — in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, who just keeps circling and circling around the action until everything else falls apart, and then strolls in at the end to pick up all the pieces for himself.

The strategic center of the rebellion was not a place – not New York, Philadelphia, not the Hudson corridor – but the Continental Army itself.

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Asked to explain the defeat, Adams put it succinctly: "In general, our Generals were out generalled.") Washington

namely, never interfere when your enemies are busily engaged in flagrant acts of self-destruction.

Axiom 4 Your ad layout and the first few paragraphs of your ad must create the buying environment most conducive to the sale of your product or service.

What's plan b?' 'We all die now.' 'What's plan c?

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

I've Got Him! You've got to keep at her. Forget all your training--she's fought you a thousand times. Don't presume to run my team, you little tart- (Colossus throws Emma at Danger) Yes. I see how it works. Normally, I wouldn't have done that.

All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn.

Ante tus enemigos, aconsejaba el padre de Rebecca, es tan prudente ocultar tu inteligencia como esconder tus debilidades.

You make careful plans, and 'chance' seems to favor you. Things go your way that look to a neutral observer like luck. But it's luck you've engineered.

What a person is in secret, he becomes -- in politics.

A wise administrator never admits to having enemies, and a yet wiser administrator never has enemies.

Thus, so far we have seen that: We are engaged in a war. Our enemy is Satan. The mind is the battlefield. The devil works diligently to set up strongholds in our mind. He does it through strategy and deceit (through well-laid plans and deliberate deception). He is in no hurry; he takes his time to work out his plan.

Nothing good happens accidentally.

God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors.

missed the clockwork exhilaration of a perfect plan. He still thrilled at the word heist.