Quotes About Strategy

steeper. In a way, the forward curve simply stretches or magnifies the shape of the current yield curve. And if you don't believe what the forward curve is predicting, then derivatives allow you to bet against the forward curve.

D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

Our analysis suggests that ratcheting up the use of traffic stops as a crime fighting strategy has little positive effect on crime but dramatically negative effects on racial disparities, on alienation and trust in the minority community, and on community cooperation with the police.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Ich pflege, meine Waffen zu benutzen, nicht öffentlich auszustellen. Aber sie liegen bereit.

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

In 1988, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia, to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public. In the book that resulted from their meeting, they revealed a strategy that achieves its effect "without reference to facts, logic or proof . . . the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not."1

for most firms, the largest, most difficult, and most expensive part of strategy implementation is aligning sales and go-to-market efforts with the company's espoused strategies and goals.

Aligning strategy and sales is the most difficult part of implementation because it involves a combination of factors: a coherent strategy, the right incentives, hiring, developing a performance culture, and sustaining field behaviors in the face of market changes largely outside the control of the seller.

But when everything is important, no one thing is truly important and efforts, rewards, and motivation suffer.17 Strategy is choice.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

It isn't sufficient just to want-you've got to ask yourself what you're going to do to get the things you want.

I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini].

Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,Making a Giant hit into a double,Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble:"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order

Advertising is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.

outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war was not a result of some global strategy, but of a set of specific, regional calculations and miscalculations; on one hand, Israel's long-standing wish to strike at the growing military power of Egypt and, on the other, the tactical mistakes of Nasser in May of that year, through which he requested the withdrawal of UN buffer forces and so left himself open to the Israeli attack.

The team had the hardest time hacking into the server of the J-2, the Joint Staff's intelligence directorate. Finally, one of the team members simply called the J-2's office and said that he was with the Pentagon's IT department, that there were some technical problems, and that he needed to reset all the passwords. The person answering the phone gave him the existing password without hesitating. The Red Team broke in.

With the exception of buying a big rig and becoming cross-country truck drivers, most of Jerry and Ben's ideas for a business involved food. They both liked to eat, so it seemed like a logical career move.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

The Pin is mightier than the sword