Quotes About Strategy

You can make yourself luckier by setting a goal, creating a plan, developing the right skills, maintaining the right attitude, and aligning your everyday choices with your goals.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering."1 - JEFF BEZOS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AMAZON

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

Neither Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in Vietnam nor President Bush in Iraq had heeded the words of the nineteenth-century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, who wrote that, in war, a nation should "never take the first step without considering what may be the last.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

The dumb fox knows that the less she criticizes, the better. Which is why she doesn't nag. Instead, she maneuvers.

I'm afraid. Terrified." "As you should be. As am I. But don't forget, sir," She reached through the bars and took hold of his hands, her own hands steady, her gaze clear and calm. "That I am a queen upon this board. And I do not play to lose.

I am a queen upon this board, Charlotte had once told Lord Ingram, and I do not play to lose.

Usually one feels aimless because one isn't sure yet what one wants—until one does, a proper strategy can't be formulated." Charlotte studied Livia a moment. "But in your case, it's possible you know exactly what you want, but you're afraid to want it, let alone pursue it.

Hasn't it always been like this?' asked Charlotte. 'Haven't they always been games that empires play with one another?' 'Maybe,' answered Lord Ingram. 'But it can take a queen-and-country sort like me a while to work that out.

Usually one feels aimless because one isn't sure yet what one wants -- until one does, a proper strategy can't be formulated. But in your case, it's possible you know exactly what you want, but you're afraid to want it, let alone pursue it.

But don't forget, sir"—she reached through the bars and took hold of his hands, her own hands steady, her gaze clear and calm—"that I am a queen upon this board—and I do not play to lose.

Online life is about premeditation.

If I developed empathy, at first, it wasn't so much a way to find connection as a survival strategy. My parents gave me burdens in childhood that I honed into gifts.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

Given the thin line between success and failure, knowing that what works in one circumstance might be disastrous in another, what do such operations have to teach us? It's certainly not that daring military action is or isn't the better course; it's that daring thinking about one's options is always the better course.

Winner dont do different but they do differently

winner don't do different things.They do things differently.

winners don't do different things. they do things differently

The question is, do we have to be ten times smarter than the competition? Absolutely not. All we need is the nose and the rewards are ten times bigger. It's a lot easier to improve one per cent in hundred different areas than to improve hundred per cent in any one area. That is the winning edge!

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

The most vulnerable moment for your enemy is when they are thinking that everything is going according to plan.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.