Quotes About Strategy

How to be one up—how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

On the other hand, a basic play, in perfect order, can be achieved by, say, whistling fidgetingly while playing yourself. And I once converted two down into two up when playing golf against P. Beard, known also as the leader of an orchestra, by constantly whistling a phrase from the Dorabella Variation with one note – always the same note – wrong.

A good general attack can be made by talking to your opponent about his own job, in the character of the kind of man who always tries to know more about your own profession than you know yourself.

As the shape and interior of the puzzle became clearer, those who possessed this information began to imagine controlling it. Empires exist because they can be conceived.

The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they're the ones to take it away from you.

In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.

Logical thinking can outwit random processing!

As they crept closer, I decided to make my move first and surprise them. I selected my prey, the biggest one! The reasoning behind this is that if you deck the largest and strongest one out of a group then it sends out a clear-cut message to the rest of them.

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

the essential fault lay with the Confederacy's failure to have produced a single good map of the approaches to its own capital.

Malvern Hill was clearly a battle General Lee did not intend to be fought the way it was fought, and it demonstrated once again his lack of effective control over his lieutenants

Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope's army.

The fact of the matter is that George G. Meade, unexpectedly and against the odds, thoroughly outgeneraled Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg.18

George McClellan's conviction that he was forever outnumbered was the one constant of his military character.

retail chains charge tens of thousands of dollars to place a particular candy bar in the racks near the register. Very few people, after all, head into

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game. —Randy Pausch

Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it's the result of a deliberate series of steps on his or her part.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Three basic components must be considered when defining your objectives: your entry, postentry, and exit strategies.

Among the most important factors to consider when determining your optimum holding period are the tax implications and how they will impact your bottom line.

It's true that the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

there is an old adage: If the guerillas do not lose, they ultimately win. . . .

Phrases like "hearts and minds" first arose in public discourse in the 1890s. The French called the strategy "peaceful penetration.