Quotes About Strategy

In those early years, I worked endlessly to research every detail that might affect the deal I wanted to pursue. I do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but I can move quickly when opportunities open because I've done the background work first—which no one else sees. I prepare thoroughly. Then, when the green flag is dropped, I can stay ahead of competitors.

There is a very simple reason why Lion El'Jonson did not take part in the final battles of the Horus Heresy. It is beautifully simple, when you consider it. He was waiting.' 'Waiting for what?' Boreas asked quietly. 'He was waiting to see which side won, of course.

To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. Like rapport-building, charm and the deceptive smile, unsolicited niceness often has a discoverable motive. Kelly

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Muchos traders están tan temerosos de perder un posible movimiento del mercado que no se atreven a dedicar tiempo a reenfocar sus planes de trading. No se dan cuenta de que un riesgo mucho mayor es perder de vista sus planes y hacer trading a tontas y a locas.

Su plan de trading es como un ancla que le será de utilidad cuando los mares estén embravecidos.

I'm really good a breaking down a problem into small enough parts that everything falls through the cracks & voilá, problem solved. —Problem Solver

Computer business are like fruit market on a Saturday night. If you don't sell it at five o'clock, the price is down tomorrow because the fruit's no good the next day. You'd better sell it now.

I am a football.

Armed with an awareness of how investors value intangibles,

At any given point in the life of a project, the only two things that matter are the amount of effort and resources required to complete the project, and the present value of the cash flows that the project will generate. As harsh as this may seem, the energy and effort already invested in the project are irrelevant. Goals and strategies change, and sometimes the most prudent course of action is to cut your losses and to move on to more value-creating projects.

Just as tasks should have a cancellation policy, threads should have an interruption policy.

When I see a nail, I reach for a hammer. They study the nail and obsess over whether it might actually be, or could possibly be turned into, a bolt or a screw, and then they try playing mind games. As often as not, the nail screws them.

Say what you will of the Romans, they were no incompetents when it came to killing. They knew better than to nail some poor bugger up by his palms; the bones are too small.

Work smarter, not harder," was Scrooge's motto, and his stories were full of inventive schemes that, more often than not, made him even richer and more successful. In Scrooge's world, hard work paid off, yes — but so did cleverness and a desire to do something in a way no one had ever thought of before.

The observation of Major George Beckwith bears repeating: "Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us!" In

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

As Prussian field marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke said, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

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Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.

It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.