Quotes About Strategy

Modus operandi, or M.O., encompasses those actions necessary to accomplish the crime.

Jennie quickly began to use language to mislead us. Or to manage a situation more to her liking.

Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount—they only shift from one player to the other.

It's not enough to figure out how to do something. You must also analyze every possible path to failure. Only then can you be certain of success.

drug is going to end warfare as we know it." "That's what Alfred Nobel said when he invented dynamite.

He had always found it easier to go up against an intelligent adversary. Stupid people were unpredictable.

Mary and Joseph," he said, "turned a very embarrassing situation into one of the greatest coups in history. Clever, clever, clever!

game theory, was called the "ultimatum game.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

Yes, he is intelligent. But we must be more intelligent. We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all." I acquiesced. "There, mon ami, you will be of great assistance to me." I was pleased with the compliment. There had been times when I hardly thought that Poirot appreciated me at my true worth. "Yes" he continued staring at me thoughtfully, "you will be invaluable

If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle

If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.

But to succeed in life every detail should be arranged well beforehand.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.

How can you and I set about preventing a murder? You're about a hundred and I'm a broken-up old crock.

Decidedly it was the policy of an imbecile.

Si se estudia un problema con orden y método, no hay dificultad alguna en resolverlo (Hércules Poirot)