Quotes About Strategy

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

[The] stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Time is the enemy of the poor business and the friend of the great business. If you have a business that's earning 20%-25% on equity, time is your friend. But time is your enemy if your money is in a low return business.

We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Whatever may be advanced by philosophers to the contrary, I am of opinion that, as to nations, the old maxim, that "honesty is the best policy," is a sheer and ruinous mistake. It might have answered well enough in the honest times when it was made; but, in these degenerate days, if a nation pretends to rely merely upon the justice of its dealings, it will fare something like the honest man who fell among thieves, and found his honesty a poor protection against bad company. Such

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.

I couldn't beat people with my strength I don't have a hard shot I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

Hit 'em where they ain't.

The most important lesson Louise learned a week before her ninth birthday was the hardest one to keep in mind. Sometimes what sounded like a good plan wasn't.

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

The pawn protects every piece on the board," Bob says, "even though it can't make as many different moves. And if you can get it to the other side of the board safely, it becomes a much more powerful piece, like a knight or a queen.

Swimming is about the only physical activity during which I am unlikely to injure anyone. I am also good at chess, which I feel should count as physical activity because you have to reach over and move pieces all the time. Some of the boards are quite large, so one must lean AND reach at the same time, thereby expending even more energy.

Forces from Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia encircled the town.

Biznis ou se tankou yon pye mango. Moun ki renmen mango yo te absan lèw tap konstwi pye mango pou l ka pwodui mango men moun ki renmen mango yo toujou prezan pou yo manje tout mango yo. Biznis ou se tankou yon pye mango.

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.