Quotes About Strategy

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Trees die from the top". No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

The coach has put a lot of trust in me to make good decisions in the post.

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

Ric placed his elbows on his desk and rested his chin in the palms of his hand. "So, let me sum up - we've got one vote for total annihilation and one vote for forcing them to join the hockey team. Am I correct?" "Yes," both females replied.