Quotes About Strategy

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

...trout that doesn't think two jumps and several runs ahead of the average fisherman is mighty apt to get fried.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will actually gain a better margin realization.

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to you. I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.

Once I started realizing I could lose people at the line of scrimmage, and essentially run a route on air. I figured that that was the way to go. So I just put a lot into that, and obviously I made it a big part of who I am as a football player.

Yes, negotiating is about money and the bottom line, but a lot of times, it's much more emotional and complex than that. Realizing that the economic outcome may not be the other party's top priority gives you more chips to play with and will enable you to achieve better results than you may have anticipated.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

You know, when you do something that's different and out of your realm, you want to pick the right time.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

I have quite a good card sense. My grandmother taught me to play bridge, so I had a reasonable sense of the cards and how they work.

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn't that I couldn't play every day.

Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.

Al Gore didn't need to distance himself from Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 2000 because, when he ran, the country was in very good shape: strong economically and not at war. He did it anyway, and it was, in many people's estimate, mine included, one of the reasons he lost.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I thought the best way to topple Assad was not through airstrikes, but through equipping the moderate rebel elements.

We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.

A national party cannot win an election riding piggyback on the rebels of the rival party.

That's why big guys exist. It's our job to protect the paint. It's our job to rebound. And it's our job to get the easy points.