Quotes About Strategy

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.

You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

You can just fight one man at a time.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.

When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.