Quotes About Strategy

the organs of Russian state security rarely murder someone without a plan to cast the blame on someone else.

the Americans did that. The president and his advisers were too quick to part ways with the Arab strongmen. Now the president's confronted with a world gone mad, and he doesn't have a clue as to what to do about it.

Daniel Silva

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

Wasn't it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?

By way of deception, thou shalt do war. —Motto of the Mossad

When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

The Germany Navy immediately launched a tremendous U-boat building program which by the end of the war produced a total of 1102 new boats. Production rose from two boats per month in 1939, to over thirty a month in the middle of the war.

The definition of a calculated risk is a gamble which military men take when they can't figure out what else to do and which turns out to be right. When it turns out wrong, it wasn't a calculated risk at all. It was a piece of utter stupidity.

Simplicity rules everything worth while, and whenever I have been up against a business proposition which, after taking thought, I could not reduce to simplicity, I have realized that it was hopelessly wrong and I have let it alone.

course, she told her husband that it wouldn't be the same without me, he talked to Spencer, and I was on the list." That was always the trick with Spencer. If she said no to one of his colleagues,

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

This procedure of building the audience before developing the offer has profound implications to the operation and growth of your business.

Every business needs a core strategy to be what I call always on the improve , for us it's constant, gentle pressure.

I was developing what I would call an "athletic" approach to hospitality, sometimes playing offense, sometimes playing defense, but always wanting to find a way to win. ... The point is to keep the dialogue open while sending the message: I am your agent, not the gatekeeper!

Un antiguo proverbio reza: «Si las hienas te van pisando los talones, arrójales para que se alimenten el más jugoso de los bocados: un cordero recién nacido. Ya verás, cuando abran las mandíbulas para triturar a su presa, no hay hiena ni chacal que preste atención al resto».

New competences, new channels, new geographies versus doubling down or tripling down on the same businesses.

Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter's duel with the Ministry of Magic.

Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.

What's first-best time to negotiate?" he asked. "When you're certain to lose. Then you may salvage something, right?

Kirk] paced back toward his command chair, all eyes on him. "He must have a weakness." "Certainly," Chekov said. "Is he not basically humanoid? He could be poisoned, phasered, stabbed-" Kirk sneered. " Without killing him, Ensign." With a shrug, Chekov turned quietly back to his console, pulling his hands from his lap and placing them on the controls.