Quotes About Strategy

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

The most powerful military in the world cannot invade, kill or capture a network or destroy every loose weapon on the planet. The best response to this network of terror is to build a network of our own -- a network of like-minded countries and organizations that pools resources, information, ideas, and power. Taking on the radical fundamentalists alone isn't necessary, it isn't smart, and it won't succeed.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently.

Our military superiority is so great — it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days… Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad… The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

How do you set the right price for the right customer at the right time in the right channel?

One of the biggest shifts that we've been focused on is the shift from offline to online media. We have several investments taking advantage of this trend.

I'm reminded of the famous attorney who was asked if luck played any part in success at trial and he said yes, and it usually comes at three in the morning when I'm in the library doing research.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

You may have heard the old saying that "the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result." In marketing, we could say something very similar: the definition of insanity is doing the same things as your competitors and expecting to beat them.

Chris Darden made a huge error in asking O.

We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

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

diplomacy by "balance of fear.

calling the Soviet Union

I took some heat from the far right, but my strategy is clear: If traditionalists want to win the culture war, they must fight with honor, because honor, as the true traditionalist understands, is a hallmark of America.

How are you going to defeat ISIS? TRUMP: I would hit them so hard. I would find a general. I would find the Patton or the MacArthur. I would hit them so hard your head would spin. O'REILLY: Are you telling me that you're going to send American ground troops into Syria [where ISIS was basing]? TRUMP: I'm not telling you anything. And the reason I'm not Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is because I don't want them to know the game plan.

George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.

He oversaw American forces in the Korean War