Quotes About Strategy

thought, Lee wants a frontal assault. I guess he'll have one. He turned to the messenger.

hope is not a strategy.

Churchill quote – "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

Which was a reminder that you didn't want faith getting in the way of tactical considerations. But, at a certain point, faith, however groundless, however forlorn, can be all you've got left.

The ancient Florentines were so far from seeking to obtain any advantage over their enemies by surprise, that they always gave them a month's warning before they drew their army into the field, by the continual tolling of a bell they called Martinella.—[After St. Martin.] For

Following dragonflies didn't qualify as a clever or well-thought-out plan of action.

Qui, au fond, a eu l'idée de retourner le principe de Clausewitz, qui a eu l'idée de dire : il se peut bien que la guerre soit la politique menée par d'autres moyens, mais la politique elle-même n'est-elle pas la guerre menée par d'autres moyens?

Like what?" I said. "Like you have one official leader and one shadow leader," Helen said. "Charlotte will have to develop a strategy because Robert's Rules and a covenant won't contain that Jennie. She likes disruption

Maybe it's not even his master plan; maybe it's, like, the American Library Association's master plan, and they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

You can't keep living without a plan for your money. That's like going on a cross-country trip to visit cities and towns you've never been to before, only you don't have a roadmap.

I had an awful time quitting jobs. It was so irresponsible, and being inherently irresponsible, I knew I had to be vigilant. So instead I would make them fire me. I have had girlfriends who employ this strategy in relationships, which is bad, but in regards to employment it is ok.

The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing "smart dust," dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be sprayed over a battlefield to give commanders real-time information. In the future it is conceivable that "smart dust" might be sent to the nearby stars.

I have told how Skorzeny wrote in this respect: Hitler had confessed to him he would not use the atomic bomb to win the war. It is very possible the bomb the American used against Japan was the one the Germans did not use against them. By doing so Hitler would not have won the war, he would have lost it, since he would have Judaized his own world, using an extreme Jew method. He would have used the weapon of the enemy. He would have lost by winning. Instead he won by losing.

Setiap orang bisa membunuh dengan darah panas, tanpa akal sehat. Tapi akal sehat adalah yang diminta sang raja pembunuh. Akal sehat mengatakan kepada Zulaika bahwa ia tidak mungkin berhasil dalam dua serangan melawan laki-laki yang jauh lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari padanya.

Good hiring practices are the backbone of strong company performance.

Military force should never be used for its own sake, but always to achieve a political objective.

Cole shrugged. Maybe. But if Forrice had been in charge of the Quentin the way I planned it originally, there's a fifty-fifty chance it would have made it back. And a fifty-fifty chance the Kermit wouldn't have. True, he admitted. But Mount Fuji sacrificed himself. It was a noble thing to do, but I was taught that it's never a good idea to die for your side. The object of the exercise is to make your enemy die for his side.

Figura 3.3. Focalización en los medios con el objetivo de lograr los

Toyota cree firmemente que son las rutinas organizacionales para la mejora y la adaptación, y no los objetivos cuantitativos/económico-financieros, las que definen la ruta hacia la ventaja competitiva y a la supervivencia organizacional a largo plazo.

Meta skills define the how-to, not the what-to.

El placer de la mistificación debía protegeros. Ésa fue de hecho nuestra estrategia, la de todos nosotros. Comprendimos desde hace mucho que ya no era posible subvertir el mundo, ni remodelarlo, ni detener su pobre huida hacia delante. Sólo había una resistencia posible: no tomarlo en serio.

Cuando uno ataca otro tiene que retroceder, no hay más remedio. La retirada, como todos saben, es la más difícil de las maniobras militares

Pero cuando a uno le llama la atención una mujer, hace todo lo posible para entrar en relación con ella, al menos de un modo indirecto, mediante alguna estratagema, para tomar contacto al menos desde lejos con su mundo y ponerlo en movimiento.