Quotes About Strategy

Transactional politics is not always appropriate or effective, but a political system which is not reliably capable of it is a system in a state of critical failure. Deal-making

Like his fellow inmates, Churchill was driven by an "earnest desire to do something, however small, for the British cause," with one important difference: "Of course, I am a man of peace. I do not fight. But swords are not the only weapons in the world. Something may be done with a pen.

Aronian made the interesting point that if I could force a passed a-pawn I might have winning chances

chess games are rarely lost by oversights but rather by "the failure to apprehend certainties".

Weapons win wars, but it takes ideas to win the peace.

Well, she may think it was her idea, but I'd been looking for an excuse to get you back all winter.

En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l'adversaire en faisant en sorte que ce dernier ne vous arrache pas les bras pour vous assommer avec.

Can you define 'plan' as a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance? If so, then it was a very good plan.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

War! that mad game the world so loves to play.

Our Company was participating in a management seminar in which we were taught a strategy that goes by the unlovely name of 'reverse your buts.' I did not make this up! It works like this: Maybe you're thinking, 'I love you, but you're driving me crazy.' Instead, try thinking, 'You're driving me crazy, but I love you." Isn't it amazing how different that feels?

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge $5 for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

As your customer is changing how they buy, it's imperative that you change how you sell"

Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954)

Jugamos tres partidas, las cuales ganó Holmes, como siempre, pues su extraordinaria habilidad manual le permitía cambiar las fichas de casilla cuando le daba la gana, sin que lo advirtiese, y yo me armaba unos líos como para nombrar abogado.

En política no hay amigos que valgan

In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses but talks about what he'll do if he wins and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins but knows what he'll do if he loses.

A game is played from a position, but a position or its corresponding attitude is not a game.