Quotes About Strategy

Loving the game meant mastering the mechanics of the game.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

one's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's distance from the scene of conflict.

The real action is in the enemy's reaction.

In the politics of human life, consistency is not a virtue.

To pander to those who have no stomach for straight language, and insist upon bland, non controversial sauces, is a waste of time. They cannot on deliberately will not understand what we are discussing here.

The essence of Lenin's speeches during this period was "They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet." And it was.

Not only does a single- or even a dual-issue organization condemn you to a small organization, it is axiomatic that a single-issue organization won't last. An organization needs action as an individual needs oxygen. With only one or two issues there will certainly be a lapse of action, and then comes death. Multiple issues mean constant action and life. An

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. As

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, it results in confusion, fear, and retreat. [...] The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

The Ninth Rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

The move is there, but you must see it.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

Saying of the sport

Curlers rock and roll!

Curlers do it hard.

I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story that leads to the outcome they want.

You are to imagine a Realworld room with three light bulbs in it. Outside the room are three electric switches. You may only enter the room once, and you may only have one switch on when you enter the room. How can you work out which switch operates which light?

The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that maximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.