Quotes About Strategy

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

You know who the big winner in Mosul is going to be after we eventually get it - and the only reason they did it is because she's running for office of president and they want to look tough.

If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody would be against that.

I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

[Donald] Trump has quietly rolled out an immigration plan with specifics and everyone wants specifics. He's got immigration with specifics, a black and Hispanic outreach plan with specifics.

Take a thousand soldiers. Four hundred will stand in a fight but do nothing. Two hundred will run given the chance. Another hundred will get confused. That leaves three hundred you can count on. Your task in commanding that thousand is all down to knowing where to put that three hundred.

Never bargain with a man who has nothing to lose.

A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilization. Thus, a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.

Kruppe nodded. "Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.

Soldiers have no imagination, meaning they're capable of vast surprises

An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself

But what did Tattersail teach you? "If things get too hot," he said, "pull out, Toc. Ride

It's the game of seeing all but reacting to nothing. Until necessity forces the issue.

Seeing victory only moments away stripped caution from the hunters.

Bargain from strength or don't bargain at all.