Quotes About Strategy

The easy way to be smarter than your competitors, is to do what they don't do.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

In dealing with cunning people, we must ever consider their needs to interpret their speeches.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

He led his regiment from behind—He found it less exciting.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Powerful brands in the future will instead carefully choose who'd they'd love to be friends with - and who they'd be comfortable upsetting.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

I love to play to win.

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.

I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.