Quotes About Strategy

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

He took a moment, as if he were deciding which tack to go with. I think he chose honesty, but it's so hard to tell. And if you chose honesty as a strategy, is it still honesty?

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy,

What if every company strategised around a Doughnut table, asking itself: is our brand a Doughnut brand, whose core business helps to bring humanity into that safe and just space? Imagine if the G20 finance ministers—representing the world's most powerful economies—met around a Doughnut-shaped conference table to discuss how to design a global financial system that served to bring humanity into that sweet spot. These would be world-changing conversations.

Later, you can shoot your boss an e-mail and comment positively on the new strategy or ideas she suggested and say you are eager to implement them. She'll appreciate

Er zijn meer mannen gespaard door goed om zich heen te kijken dan door uitmuntende vechtkunst.

He told me that if you had a plan in place, every situation was winnable.