Quotes About Strategy

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

the art of politics and the idea of cohering interests.

The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.

Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

You always have to reflect how you can become an awkward team to play against.

Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

There's a lot of work you have to do before you ever fire the starting gun on a health reform bill - doing the scut work with members of Congress, talking to your allies - to figure out the best plan.

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn't affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.

There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.

My philosophy is to make an offer that the other guy can't refuse, because he thinks there's no way he can't win.

Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10.

Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.

To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.

A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.

I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Regarding Jose Mourinho, I hope I can learn a lot from him - he is a coach with a fantastic record.