Quotes About Strategy

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

July I The British plan is this: a million shells to cut the Boche wire. Shoulder your seventy-pound pack as usual. Go over the top. Walk towards the German lines, they'll all be dead by now. Keep walking til you hit Berlin. In four and a half hours, fifty thousand Britons and Canadians are shot. That afternoon, the British plan is revised: do everything as before. But this time, run. Abe is killed walking. Rudy is killed running.

Luck is not a business model.

We knew well how much these people were paying for cocaine - and that the more coke cost, the more people wanted it. We applied the same market plan to our budding catering operation, along with a similar pricing structure, and business was suddenly very, very, good.

I'm just saying, I guess, that I got very lucky. And luck is not a business model.

Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.

One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.

To hold a friend in the background at a certain stage of a love affair is a technique some men like to employ; a method which spreads, as it were, the emotional load, ameliorating risks of dual conflict between the lovers themselves, although at the same time posing a certain hazard in the undue proximity of a third party unencumbered with emotional responsibility – and therefore almost always seen to better advantage than the lover himself.

If you're prepared, and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there. —MARK CUBAN

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams. And from that place, when you take massive action—with an effective and proven strategy—you will rewrite your history.

that people who produce outstanding results think this way.

don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. —WARREN BUFFETT

And this real-world approach is called the dollar-weighted return.

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Asset allocation, where to park your money and how to divide it up, is the single most important skill of a successful investor.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious. —MARCUS AURELIUS

So if you think you can time the markets, you're wrong.

diversify across time. And that's what dollar-cost averaging does for you.

success leaves clues. People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else does.

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success

A lot of brilliant people are terrible investors. The reason is that they don't have the ability to make decisions with limited information. By the time you get all the information, everyone else knows it, and you no longer have the edge.

The path to success consists of knowing your outcome, taking action, knowing what results you're getting, and having the flexibility to change until you're successful.

Timing the market is basically playing poker with the best players in the world who play round the clock with nearly unlimited resources.

The mantra is simple: take the money you save on fees and reinvest it for compounded growth. This strategy is another fast lane to freedom.