Quotes About Strategy

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.

There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.

Sit down and draw up your battle plan for the negotiation. Your plan should include several elements: Objectives Resources Walk-away point Alternative to a deal

Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Too many kings can ruin an army

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.