Quotes About Strategy

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules

In the Middle East, no one gets credit for a preemptive cringe.

And while generally loyal to the United States, ibn Saud displayed no reservations about negotiating with Britain and France in order to extract higher contract fees from the Americans. Indeed, when asked by American negotiators why he favored the United States over the Europeans, ibn Saud candidly replied, "You are very far away!

The secretary quoted the Middle Eastern axiom, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," to which Netanyahu replied—"acidly," according to Gates—"No, in the Middle East, the enemy of my enemy is my frenemy.

his strongest desire was to return to farming, but Weizman had insisted that Hod replace him as air force chief early in 1966. Since then, he had concentrated on refining Focus, reducing the turnaround time for refueling and rearming jets to less than eight minutes. The Egyptian turnaround rate, by comparison, was eight hours. "He may not be able to quote [the Hebrew poet] Bialik or Shakespeare," Weizman said of Hod, "but he will screw the Arabs in plain Hebrew.

In my experience, Detective, it's all middle game.

It was a good strategy but this is where I intended to turn her plans upside-down. In the courtroom there are three things for the lawyer to always consider: the knowns, the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns. Whether at the prosecution or defense table, it is the lawyer's job to master the first two and always be prepared for the third.

Most criminal defendants talk their way into prison. Few talk their way out. The best single piece of advice I have ever given a client is to just keep your mouth shut. Talk to no one about your case, not even your own wife. You keep close counsel with yourself. You take the nickel and you live to fight another day.

When it came to opening statements, I was from the Legal Siegel school of law. He always said, save your powder, meaning less is more; don't reveal your case or its surprises until it's time to present your evidence.

for shipping and insurance." "That was a smart way

fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell

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It's my policy. -Harry Bosch

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

Understanding is a delaying tactic.

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.

Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.