Quotes About Strategy

It's such a moronic strategy, it can only have come from a trained marketing professional.

What remains constant in the midst all the innovation and change is that marketers will always find a way to be where their consumers are.

Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

The principles of your business are the foundation on which success is built.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.

Cohn and Porter worked together to derail what they believed were Trump's most impulsive and dangerous orders. That document and others like it just disappeared. When Trump had a draft on his desk to proofread, Cohn at times would just yank it, and the president would forget about it. But if it was on his desk, he'd sign it. "It's not what we did for the country," Cohn said privately. "It's what we saved him from doing.

Sometimes, the more you protect your force, the less secure you may be. Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

Chess is life

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

It's just a matter of throwing in a few sacrifices, then checkmate!

Tactics flow from a superior position.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.