Quotes About Strategy

Qué español suena eso, ¿verdad?… Si no ganas tú, al menos procura que no gane el otro. Que todos pierdan.

I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Cuanto más se suda antes de la guerra, menos se sangra en ella.

equivoca —dijo de pronto Ruy Díaz, como para sí mismo— quien hace la guerra con la única esperanza de vencer siempre.

La verdad es como la mejor jugada en ajedrez: existe, pero hay que buscarla. Con tiempo suficiente, siempre es demostrable.

y al romper el alba les volamos con mina un baluarte con treinta fulanos dentro, despertándolos de muy mala manera y demostrando que no a todo el que madruga Dios lo ayuda.

La artillería es el arma que bate habitualmente a la infantería propia y a veces a la enemiga

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

You shall never be able surprise us, but let me assure you, we shell surprise you, don't mess with Pakistan - DG ISPR Asif Ghafoor

Just because you believe in self-defense doesn't mean you let yourself be sucked into defending yourself on the enemy's terms.

Great dreams aren't just visions. They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real.

Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.

Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.

As I see it, the future of investing belongs to those who are flexible in their thinking and capable of moving easily from one segment of the market to another.

Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Let wisdom be your weapon

I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.

Getting the right behaviors to occur at the right time in the right way and at the right frequency is what separates the successful strategies from the unsuccessful ones. Some

Not enough church leaders understand and practice visionary strategic planning. According to an article in American Demographics, Gary McIntosh of the American Society for Church Growth estimates that only 20 percent of America's 367,000 congregations actively pursue strategic planning. In the same article, George Hunter, professor of evangelism and church growth at Asbury Theological Seminary, warns that churches without plans for growth invariably stagnate.[13]

I believe it was Peter Wagner who said a church that attempts to reach everyone in general will likely reach no one in particular.

His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.