Quotes About Strategy

I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

I've always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

If you ask me to sew a button, I don't know how to do it! The idea of the whole collection and how you want to build your brand is all about working with the right people. And luck!

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.