Quotes About Strategy

The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.

Come, let us weave a plan!

Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

Rather than praising their personalities or intelligence ("You are so smart" or "artistic" or "athletic"), criticizing them ("You are so stupid" or "uncoordinated"), or attributing their accomplishments to luck, we can praise their efforts or strategies.

That'll take some finagling,' she told Mulder. 'I'll keep watch, then,' he said. 'You go downtown and see what you can finagle.

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.

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.

So our chess game begins tonight, Duchess. At eleven o'clock. I will give you one hour to try to win, blindfolded or no." His teeth showed very white when he smiled. "And then I shall win." Jemma sniffed and turned up her nose. "Pride goeth before a fall, Duke." "You will fall before me," he said, his smile a blatant challenge. "Backwards.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

Note: Any vision or aspiration without a plan or an action to actualize it is nothing else but a mere wish. ~Emeasoba George

Indy car racing is much more aggressive.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Having clear decision rules saves heartburn later.

In many matters of business, perhaps in most, a continuity of mediocrity is better than a hotch-potch of excellences.

We could not do every day out of our own heads all we have to do. We should accomplish nothing, for all our energies would be frittered away in minor attempts at petty improvement. One man, too, would go off from the known track in one direction, and one in another; so that when a crisis came requiring massed combination, no two men would be near enough to act together.

Religion is the best weapon to rule or use a nation if you know how to use it.

American football was thick in the air; war on the gridiron they called it. Well, at least those who had never been in the real thing called it that.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.