Quotes About Strategy

When Sun Tzu said, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," he had a point.

I close the door and plug the secure line into my laptop and pull up the triumvirate of Carolyn Brock, Liz Greenfield, and Sam Haber of Homeland Security on a three-way split screen.

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

In this business, by the time you realize you are in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless your running scared all the time, you're gone.

la estrategia más eficaz para luchar contra el cambio climático consiste en dejar de talar tantos árboles que ya existen.

For the most part, you can get trees to grow only in places where they've already grown, so planting them could help undo the damage caused by deforestation. But there's no practical way to plant enough of them to deal with the problems caused by burning fossil fuels. The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.

The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.

that at a certain point people need more than vision.

Effective leaders are always monitoring vision leakage.

accomplishing a vision requires a lot more than pep talks, slogans, emotional stories, and heart-tugging video clips.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess They make the big moves that make me a little less Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

When I asked a Big Dog friend of mine whether it was important to sell up through an organization and obtain consensus along the way, he chuckled, and with a low growl said, "That would be a colossal waste of time—find the 'man,' set up the meeting and do the deal!

In order to build a cohesive unit, it helps to start with great players.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind

Just as important, thinking about an exit plan will force you to ask important, difficult questions about yourself.

Brodsky couldn't accept the notion that an industry, any industry, was closed to new competition. He realized that if he was going to get anywhere in records storage, he would have to come up with an approach to the business different from that of the established records-storage providers. That meant using his peripheral vision, looking at the business this way and that until he saw something that everybody else was missing.

Before you can inspire your players to "win," you have to show them how not to lose.

There isn't always an absolute right way and a wrong way to do things, but there usually is a better way, a high-percentage way. The positive thinker generally feels that his way will be the right way and nothing will go wrong, if he just believes. The negative thinker disbelieves. He takes every precaution to prevent the wrong thing from happening, and in doing so has a much better chance of things turning out right in the end.

less than 10% of the writers have a clear idea of where they want to be in five years with their writing career.

You can "pants" your way through your novel, but you can't "pants" your way to success.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. —Winston Churchill