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Quotes About Strategy

Indeed, when pessimism is rampant and market prices are down is the worst time to sell out or to stop making regular investment contributions. The time to buy is when stocks are on sale.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Avoiding serious trouble, particularly troubles that come from incurring unnecessary risks, is one of the great secrets to investment success. Investors all too often beat themselves by making serious—and completely unnecessary—investment mistakes. In
~ Burton G. Malkiel
There is no simple road to riches for you and your family. The secret to getting wealthy is that there is no secret. The only way to get rich—unless you inherit or marry a fortune or hit the lottery—is to get rich slowly. Start early and contribute as much as possible to your savings for as long as possible.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Thus, purchasing a fund holding all the stocks in a broad-based index will produce a portfolio that can be expected to do as well as any managed by professional security analysts.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
This simple investment strategy—indexing—has outperformed all but a handful of the thousands of equity and bond funds that are sold to the public. But you wouldn't know this when Wall Street throws everything but the kitchen sink at you to convince you otherwise. This is the plan we use ourselves for our retirement funds, and this is the plan we urge you to follow, too.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Trust in time rather than in timing.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
It is not hard to make money in the market.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Guerrillas by themselves cannot win wars, not in the military sense. They can keep their enemies from winning; they can hope that in time their strength will increase to the point where they can put orthodox armies in the field to confront and defeat their enemies in conventional battles; they can hope to so wear down, annoy, exasperate their foes that they will wring concessions from them; or they can hope for foreign intervention.
~ Byron Farwell
BOP consumer problems cannot be solved with old technologies.
~ C.K. Prahalad
I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.
~ Candace Bushnell
Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.
~ Carl Deuker
Without consulting our opinion—or even bothering to inform us of the underlying strategy—our brains produce hormones that make us feel strongly compelled to strive for status and assert dominance. Dominance feels like an end in itself. We don't need to know why. Here's why: high status aids survival. Status is a daily proxy for competition for mates and food.
~ Carl Safina
You either have a plan or you become part of somebody else's plan.
~ Terence McKenna
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
~ Terence McKenna
I would be remiss not to give equal credit to Burke's man here," Farouk amended, earning a smug smirk from Ash's companion. "He was clever enough to offer his throat to one of the villains as a distraction while his master dispatched the rest of them." The man's smirk vanished, only to reappear on Ash's lips.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Never tell the whole truth in a trade. A favor is an investment.
~ Terry Bisson
A politician to the end, he remained outwardly friendly and forthright while inwardly thinking of ways to cut his opponent's throat. Literally
~ Terry Brooks
Não é preciso tornar as pessoas fisicamente incapazes de usar violência para acabar com uma guerra
~ Terry Eagleton
Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.
~ Terry Goodkind
think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.
~ Terry Goodkind
Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.
~ Terry Goodkind
Think of the solution, not the problem.
~ Terry Goodkind
Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.
~ Terry Goodkind
When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.
~ Terry Goodkind