Quotes About Strategy

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

I love talking about baserunning.

I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out.

I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with.

Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

People say, 'Oh, you don't like China?' No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders, and we can't sustain ourself with that.

Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waitingfor the next x or o.

And so you, like the others, would play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my design! You know now, and they know in part already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they played wits against me, against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born, I was countermining them.

There is a method in his madness

It doesn't take a genius to plan a perfect assault," Galloran said. "The trouble tends to show up during the execution.

But I'd rather work smart than hard.

If you're going to take a huge risk, and you want to stay out of trouble, it really helps if your plan actually works.

I see you have prepared the chessboard. He grinned a devilish grin. I thought we could play for it. I win, you marry me. You win, I marry you. That way we both win (p.120)

2. Methodology

A strategy is only as good as the steps you take to execute it.

Your outrageous and reckless chaos is the only reason you are able to beat me in any strategy game," Seurat said. "It certainly has nothing to do with your innate skills.

The successful executive is like a poker player, either concealing his emotions or showing false ones, so that others cannot use them against him. —AURELIUS VENPORT, The Legacy of Business

The enemy of my enemy can still betray me. The enemy of my enemy can still kill me. —EMPEROR RODERICK CORRINO I

Select your battles carefully. Ultimately, victory and defeat are a matter of your own careful—or reckless—choices. —TLALOC, Weaknesses of the Empire

Giving the latest technology and weaponry to your military forces might seem to be enough to overwhelm the enemy, but unless you bring mental firepower to the fight, it could all be for naught. —a general of Old Earth