Quotes About Strategy

The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.

Don't make too many waves until you're ready to strike. Don't appear too innocent, but don't appear too smart either. Be average.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

I wasn't sure what Sun Tzu or Beowulf would say about flirting with cute guys. Maybe share the skulls of your enemies with them, as a gesture of affection?

The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Each time she appears, she narrows that down for us. Since she can only make projections five miles away from wherever her base is, each time she does appear, we learn more about where she might be." I nodded slowly. "Like a catapult that shoots enormous grapes.

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow's soldiers.

The enemy thinks he's won. But I want to see his face when he realizes the truth. Don't you? It's going to be delightful.

We know how to take an incredibly large task and break it down to manageable pieces, then deal with each of those pieces. We

All warfare is based on deception, Sun Tzu had said. When we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Tress thought maybe he was like her Aunt Glorf, who had always fought for the best deals at the market. She'd been afraid of looking silly by being taken advantage of. The guess was as wrong as ending a sentence with a preposition. But it worked anyway. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.

Ah, Ham, Kelsier thought. I wish I could explain everything to you. Plots behind plots, plans beyond plans. There was always another secret.

Manipulation works so well on a personal level, I don't see why it wouldn't be an equally viable national policy.

He moved like some ancient god of lore, presiding over a battlefield of miniature mortals who couldn't see him, but certainly felt his almighty hand. Except, if Dennison was a god, his specialty certainly wasn't war.

Solo un bobo creería que las armas son más importantes que la estrategia y el movimiento! —exclamó la yaya—.

Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me.

The heart might provide the purpose, but the head provides the method, the path.

As any problem to overcome is merely a set of smaller problems to overcome in a sequence

Avoidance, the second coping strategy for anxiety, is not showing up and often spending a lot of energy zigzagging around and away from that thing that already feels like it's consuming us. And avoidance isn't benign. It can hurt us, hurt other people, and lead to increased and mounting anxiety.

mind the gap. Minding the gap is a daring strategy.

Jim Collins's classic book Good to Great.

All of my stages were different suits of armor that kept me from becoming too engaged and too vulnerable. Each strategy was built on the same premise: Keep everyone at a safe distance and always have an exit strategy.

Daring leaders, even in compliance-driven and highly structured industries like banking, healthcare, and the food industry, create and share context and color. They take the time to explain the "why" behind strategies, and how tasks link to ongoing priorities and mission work. Rather than handing down black-and-white mandates stripped of story, they hold themselves responsible for adding texture and meaning to work and tying smaller tasks to the larger purpose.

What's an ambitious man but a player, Borgia—a player on a grand scale and the world his card game?