Quotes About Strategy

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; "I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.

Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

I have states that no other Republican would do well in that I think I'm gonna win. But I don't want to name those states.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.