Quotes About Strategy

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting ISIS. Russia is fighting now ISIS. And Iran is fighting ISIS.

We can't be fighting everybody at one time.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.