Quotes About Strategy

The fact is, none of us really has a choice: We are all playing the money game whether we want to or not. The only question is: Are we winning?

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

Control, apparently, is not the answer. People who need certainty in their lives are less likely to make art that is risky, subversive, complicated, iffy, suggestive or spontaneous. What's really needed is nothing more than a broad sense of what you are looking for, some strategy for how to find it, and an overriding willingess to embrace mistakes and surprises along the way.

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

First Who ... Then What. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats—and then they figured out where to drive it. The old adage "People are your most important asset" turns out to be wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are.

If the trumpet sounds an uncertain note, who shall prepare for battle?

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

It's the economy, stupid.

The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election, is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.

by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

The held fast to Deng Xiaoping's dictum: 'Hide your strength and bide your time'.

If anyone is getting too close to your business to wreak havoc knowingly or not just become the villian while having them believe that they are the hero, by doing this they will do the bulk of the work for you while steering clear of your forward progress in the area of business you are working on

Note: that Bank of You never loses and always I MEAN ALWAYS 100% always wins never loses, and never invests in bad investments

If you grind long enough you will quickly learn that generating reoccurring long-term wealth is not the problem or big headache you face rather the big headaches come from coming up with new places to put your money as the more money your money printing machine makes the more headaches you have each day to tend to

Its always after the fact with anything when people want to invest and is those who can see who always beats them to it

Sometimes no marketing is the best kind of marketing

The best lawyers are those who can win without arguing

Nothing freely given is a good thing when it comes to investing