Quotes About Strategy

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

that opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you blind.

Don't focus on the numbers. Trust the process. When you keep doing things the right way, eventually the numbers will rise, the wins will come, and the outcome will happen.

If there is one thing I've learned in all my years of coaching it's that you need to know your competition, and once you know them you can exploit their weakness. Negativity has a weakness. Let's find a way to exploit and conquer it, and we'll be well on our way to a successful turnaround.

Before you build a masterpiece you must design it. It's the same way with life, you know. Too many people go through life living by chance, but when you live by design and know the life you want to create, you are able to create a masterpiece instead of a piece of junk.

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.

Strategy is important. Execution is imperative. However, the most overlooked aspect in team sports, and what most coaches and leaders fail to grasp, is the fact that it is your culture that will determine whether your strategy works and is sustainable. It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

vision led, customer informed.

As a software developer writes a function, she commits to a strategy and a series of steps, and in doing so she eliminates other strategies or steps.

Product managers are responsible for articulating a vision for the product and ensuring that those who do build the product are working to achieve that vision.

That vision is about people and the market. Product management is about ensuring a good fit between a product, a person, and the market.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

It was weak to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Rather, you should do unto others as you feared they were going to do unto you. Better to preemptively strike than to let "them" get you first.

Squash is boxing with racquets.

Diplomacy is only important when the other party has the upper hand.

The more you understand politics, the more you realize that you mustn't move.

I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and better and bolder, but first, I'm going to do something smaller and worse.

She'd gone on the attack against a better-liked rival whose platform more closely mirrored the values of the party's base, creating a boomerang effect on her personal standing. Perhaps