Quotes About Strategy

One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline—whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates—is the ability to dictate the tone of the battle.

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

At the highest levels of any kind of competitive discipline, everyone is great. At this point the decisive factor is rarely who knows more, but who dictates the tone of the battle. For this reason, almost without exception, champions are specialists whose styles emerge from profound awareness of their unique strengths, and who are exceedingly skilled at guiding the battle in that direction.

It's one thing to decide what you want. It's quite another to know how to get it. William doesn't know how, but he is trying.

It is widely accepted that anything that reduces short-term volatility must also reduce long-term return.

As the Chinese sage of early antiquity Sun Tzu said, "The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted.

infinite games are constantly adjusted so that both players can remain standing.

You did what you had to do." He started,sure he had heard her wrong. "Oh,don't mistake me, I have no more liking for being staked out like a goat than would the next person. Still, it was a good plan, all things considered.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

No es cierto que en un duelo de miradas pierda el primero que la aparte. Quien pierde es el que, ante la inmediatez de su derrota, aparta la vista para impedir que su adversario la vea reflejada en sus ojos.

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La reina es la figura más poderosa del tablero. Pero por poderosa que sea una pieza de ajedrez, no debe olvidar que siempre hay una mano que la mueve

La niña comenzó a golpear como él le había enseñado, con la base del puño, como si fuera un martillo. —Nunca con los nudillos. Con los nudillos solo pegan los perdedores. Quizá golpeen más fuerte, pero solo pegarán un par de veces antes de tener la mano hinchada e inservible —le había aleccionado.

Los progresistas son la vanguardia que avanza abriendo brecha; los conservadores la retaguardia que consolida los avances

You need to play a little hard to get. No man appreciates what comes too easily. It's the caveman thing. We like to hunt.

Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian. DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.

The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms.

Never kill a German," Leslie told them a few days later. "Put him in the hospital for six months instead. He's more bother to his commander alive than dead. A wounded soldier has to be looked after. A dead soldier is buried and forgotten.

To begin, you will recognize that I am to be queen soon and you are not a liberty to tell me what to do, under any circumstance. His eyes widened with surprise. Now, there's a winning scheme if ever I heard one --befriend others by beating them on the head with your scepter.

Here he honed his talent for guerrilla warfare, the principles of which he condensed to a sixteen-syllable jingle for his illiterate peasant troops: Di jin, wo tui; di zhu, wo rao; Di pi, wo da; Di tui, wo zhui (when the enemy advances, retreat; when the enemy rests, harass; when the enemy grows tired, attack; when the enemy retreats, pursue).

Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.

En la guerra no hay límites, amigo mío, sólo cuenta la victoria.

Cómo le mataremos y cuándo?

Admiro tu capacidad para ponerte en la piel de los demás, para comprender sus razones. Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.