Quotes About Strategy

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

He who gains time gains everything.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

One of the greatest captains of the age.

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

263. As a Desperate Game needs an able Gamester, so Consideration often would prevent, what the best skill in the World Cannot Recover.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

But investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino—one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you play only by the rules that put the odds squarely in your favor.

If the reason people invest is to make money, then in seeking advice they are asking others to tell them how to make money. That idea has some element of naïveté.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.