Quotes About Strategy

Decisions with multiple objectives cannot be resolved by focusing on any one objective.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.

The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the army's tacit, if not explicit support, yet which must not be so dependent on the army that its fruits might be denied him.

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

Wars are lost or won by possession of three keys: morale, logistics, leadership.

Catholic intellectuals in both Europe and the United States used a strategy similar to that of international socialists, promoting a universalist ideology as a mechanism for disentangling race, nation, and state.

Astor was simply following an old Astor tradition, one that his father, John Jacob Astor, had begun. The Astors seldom bought property that had already been developed. Believing that the population of New York City would grow, and the only way it could grow was northward up Manhattan Island, the Astors liked to buy relatively inexpensive property on the edge of development and let the burgeoning population catch up with

Purdue paid its reps better than most drug-makers paid theirs—by 2001, an average salary of $55,000 and an average bonus of $71,500. Purdue spent a half-billion dollars on the one-on-one sales strategy between 1996 and 2001.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

?Chris can sometimes rush into action when it might be smarter to sit back and bark at it for a while.

Such a lexicon of tactics.

In the deceptively modest volume you are now holding, von Neumann articulates his model of computation and goes on to define the essential equivalence of the human brain and a computer. He acknowledges the apparently deep structural differences, but by applying Turing's principle of the equivalence of all computation, von Neumann envisions a strategy to understand the brain's methods as computation, to re-create those methods, and ultimately to expand its powers.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Si vis pacem, para bellum," Gray

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

The party was like many another. Conversation began desultorily, gathered a swift but feeble energy, and trailed irrelevantly into other conversations; laughter was quick and nervous, and it burst like tiny explosives in a continuous but unrelated barrage all over the room; and the members of the party flowed casually from one place to another, as if quietly occupying shifting positions of strategy.

Edith's was a campaign waged with such cleverness and skill that he could find no rational grounds for complaint.

Edith's strategy became more indirect, more quiet and contained.

It was a strategy that disguised itself as love and concern, and thus one against which he was helpless.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

The leader does the planning, but he's wise enough not to say so. As the changes become necessary, he slips them in as a concession – temporary, of course – to circumstances, but if he's good, he's slipping in the right bits for the ultimate shape.