Quotes About Strategy

For relaxation he could always engage Hal in a large number of semimathematical games, including checkers, chess, and polyominoes. If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.

Gücü doÄŸru ÅŸekilde uygularsan bütün siyasal sonuçlar? çözebilirsin.

Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.

Now, at last, the Ramans' strategy was obvious. They had come so close to the Sun merely to tap its energy at the source and to speed themselves even faster on the way to their ultimate, unknown goal.

You know my methods. Apply them.

I have taken to living by my wits.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of

Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

We also have our diplomatic secrets

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Jaim says that the essence of command is to turn surprises to your favor. You get your perimeter outside the enemy's perimeter, and attack." "What does that mean, exactly?" "Oh, I don't know, some kind of military jabber. I was hoping you knew.

You don't look at the problem all at once, or it's like being caught in a spring flood under a downpour. You tackle the problem in pieces...

While I kept playing chess with him, his mind was elsewhere. I took his queen and he took my Rose.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Each manager sees his own division as the center of the world, and that's as it should be. But someone has to have an overall view and decide what's best for the company.

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the

In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

There is a way to represent one's cause and in doing so to treat the audience in such a cool and condescending manner that they are bound to notice one is not doing it to please them. The principle should always be not to make concessions to those who don't have anything to give but who have everything to gain from us. We can wait until they are begging on their knees even if it takes a very long time.

The Roman people paid great attention to the rightness of their wars in the building of the empire. 'When the inception of war seems just,' ran the logic, 'it makes victory greater and ill success less perilous, while if it is thought to be dishonourable and wrong, it has the opposite effect'.

gradual and diplomatic path to asserting Rome's supremacy.

Apply extreme caution when wearing red in the workplace. Even a simple demure red outfit -- a cashmere twinset -- can turn you into the office lightning rod. If you are crafty, you can use this to your advantage. To gain the upper hand in an upcoming negotiation, try wearing a flaming red silk blouse and painting your nails red.