Quotes About Strategy

The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

If we launch a new product, we have to time it right. It's not about how soon you can do it but how well we can do it.

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

I think switching is like a lot of things. You can do it - it's a game plan - but you better do it well. You better practise it.

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

When you see the floor and you understand the game and you're trying to break it down with what you have in front of you, you can do it offensively and defensively. And you try to take advantage of it both ways. You see where the offense's head is and you can kind of read what you want to do.

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.