Quotes About Strategy

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors exist.

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Come up with the game plan while you're in the midst of the action.

1st 90 days, 1st 365 days, & in the 5th year; an entrepreneur needs to have a very tight grip from day 1 on what all must be done to build a start-up

Do not make what you can sell, sell what you can make

Entrepreneur should never forget that better to be lucky than smart. So many times it is not the intellect that wins.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

Finally, you can keep the money in the corporation and wait until you die. Obviously, this isn't my favorite technique. However, upon death, your heirs get a step up in basis for the corporate stock and can liquidate the corporation and receive the proceeds tax free.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Fear-based messaging will never lead to a long-term effective strategy because it is not the way we are wired.

When we have to think strategically, we also have to accept our complicity: we forgo any illusions of purity; we give up the safety of exteriority. If we are not exterior to the problem under investigation, we too are the problem under investigation. Diversity work is messy, even dirty, work.

starting in the 1970s, the left began to mistake the ends for the means.

Ya lo dijo Gandhi: para que algo funcione se requiere llevar el combate a un terreno en el que poseemos armas.

He had it all planned out, down to the end.

Playing on her femininity and making him feel uncomfortable seemed highly effective.

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.