Quotes About Strategy

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity for the man who has no knowledge of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea — it's sure to be wrong!

My eyes were on the game as the Winter Hawks moved the puck into our zone. I wanted to learn as much as I could about their offense. I wanted to know how they moved the puck around. Playing or not playing, I always look for things that give away shooters' secrets.

Phillip was sort of a strange genius, because he figured out exactly where the holes were in the system, and he used them. He didn't 'fall between the cracks.' He lived in the cracks.

For the canny and the farsighted, vast deficits also create vast opportunities.

The average player has the ball for only 53.4 seconds every game (according to Chris Carling, the English performance analyst at Lille in France) so any player's main job is to occupy the right positions for the other eighty-nine minutes and 6.6 seconds.

you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don't make that much difference.

With every player there is a moment when his value is higher than the price. The key is to get that timing right.

A club like Bayern Munich, which shuns debt, is in fact missing a trick. Bayern could easily borrow a few hundred million dollars to make itself invincible against human opposition on the long term.

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

We are in the midst of a global battery arms race where, at present, the US is a bystander

Big corporations aren't always the bad guys; but it's the sensible way to bet.

Big corporations aren't always the bad guys; but it's the sensible way to bet.

Careful planning and preparation guarantees powerful experiences.

He had been on operations alongside his British counterparts and said that although American special forces teams had access to more resources, such as equipment, planes and satellites, the British were especially good because they endlessly ran through war-game scenarios. They practised, over and over. They prepared. 'Then when it all goes south,' said the American admiringly, 'they really know what to do.

rule of war – always try and get the enemy

Lust? Who's talking about lust? You want to screw her, right? So that's your objective. All you need now is deployment of the appropriate tactics to manoeuvre her into an advantageous position and then secure your conquest. Then it's just a question of mopping up.

La guerra, explicaba Napoleón, no era «un arte difícil», sino «una cuestión de ocultar el miedo el mayor tiempo posible. Solo de ese modo se logra intimidar al enemigo y el éxito está fuera de dudas».

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

This apparently innocuous observation would lead to the first great breakthrough in cryptanalysis.

Feelings can't be a part of this game.

"Planning is thinking about tomorrow,today." -sm-

First draw a map of where you wanna take your business to, then you'll never go wrong.