Quotes About Strategy

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of global equities, diversified U.S. and global and emerging markets, and when the risk is larger, I diminish the amount in global equities and put more into liquid assets - but very irregularly.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.'

Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don't like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.

I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

The company has been clear from the start that we try to serve customers long-term, and long-term investors are going to be more excited about Amazon than short-term investors.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

We have to find a way to get the two forms of the game co-existing - and that involves administrators sitting down and banging their heads together and working out a framework. I understand the politics but I'm more interested in what's best for the game.

In F1 everything involves money, but there are other details to work on.

Russia has always been very careful to try to balance the interest of the Gulf states and Iran off against each other.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

Out of any country on the planet, I can't think of a country that has been more focused than Iran from the high levels of government on cyber, and that includes the United States.

Our mission to defeat ISIS has been slowed down by the need to defend from additional Iranian attacks.

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.