Quotes About Strategy

Had she been able to see into the future, she might have pointed out that she was previewing her successors' plans for a possible no-deal Brexit.

War it has been said, is diplomacy continued by other means.

On President Trump's on actually hurting Mexico with tariffs, "That might be his play, if we can ascribe any sophistication to it. That's a big if, because he may just be insane."

Unlike the Houston Astros hitters, nobody hit the garbage bins for us. We had to react to pitches on skill with no warning and we won."

You don't really play poker with your cards up.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." —ROMAN DE RENARD

She was gauging him, trying to work out what cards he had up his sleeve. For now he might be able to keep her off balance by smiling meaningfully and dropping hints, delaying the moment in which she realized that she held all the cards, and that his well-brushed sleeves held nothing but his arms.

Like medicine, truth could be used as a poison by someone cunning enough.

He felt like a chess-master who, two moves from achieving checkmate, suddenly sees a live kitten dropped on to the middle of the board, scattering pieces.

The Childersins were armed with swords and daggers. The Cartographers were armed with nothing but surprise, but really quite a lot of surprise.

I don't quite have a plan, but I think now I sort of have a plan for how to make a plan for coming up with a plan.

Companies] mistook a lack of competition for success.

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For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

I don't think it's changed that much. A lot of people talk about the change, but to me, everything changes, teams change, one year it's the Celtics, next year it's Philadelphia. It changes all the time.... [But] it's still basketball. The games are played different ways. Coaches influence a lot of it. But overall I think it's a great game and I still love it.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

I don't worry about ratings. I'm trying to win a ballgame right now. Whatever it takes to win a ballgame, we're going to do it. If it takes a four-hour game, that's what we have to do.

Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?

Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

We've tried three forms of intervention in the Middle East; we've tried full-on intervention in Iraq, we've tried semi-intervention in Libya, and we tried non-intervention or very limited intervention in Syria. All of them are difficult.