Quotes About Strategy

No strong ties to other Houses, no patrons of great influence. It wasn't unusual. Many smaller Houses preferred to operate independently, unattached to a larger family. Powerful Houses had powerful enemies, and when you allied yourself to one, you inherited their friends and their rivals.

All Maud had was an ability to read people and an innate understanding of violence and its degrees and uses. Within seconds of meeting an opponent, she knew exactly how to provoke or calm them and how much force she would have to use to stop, cripple, or kill them. Person or animal, Maud could take its measure and push them to the desired result. That's what made her so good at navigating vampire politics.

So far my best plan would be to build a mountain of gasoline cans and explosives, stick a Property of US Government sign on it, and throw a T-shirt over Pierce's head when he showed up to explode it. Yes, this would totally work. If only.

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy

I could ask the Pack and the Witches for help, but they would expect some sort of strategy besides "let's all run at Roland's castle and get killed.

Treaty of Peace Shall Be Held Valid in Which There Is Tacitly Reserved Matter for a Future War";

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.

With the characteristic cunning of true love, she was already manipulating the future.

Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.

The most important thing to do is to make the judge want to decide things your way, Darrow advised one of his younger partners. They are human beings, moved by the same things that move other human beings. The point of law merely give the judge a reason for doing what you have already made him want to do.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

The secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

So it is only the combination of strong Emperor and strong general that can harm the Foundation; for a strong Emperor cannot be dethroned easily, and a strong general is forced to turn outwards, past the frontiers.

But I'd be killed, and I never like to count on that when I'm making plans. It doesn't pay off.

What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.

I'm a man of business. If it adds up to a plus mark, I'm for it.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar.»

Para vencer, la planificación por sí sola no basta. Uno debe improvisar.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar.» Yo improvisaré.

Para triunfar, el solo planteamiento es insuficiente. También se debe improvisar. a

Hardin once said: 'To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is a deadly danger of winning

That's why I must be mayor and high priest. I'm the only man who knows how to fight the crisis." Jael swallowed dryly. "How? What are you going to do?" "Nothing." Jael smiled uncertainly. "Really! All of that!" But Mallow's answer was incisive. "When I'm boss of this Foundation, I'm going to do nothing. One hundred percent of nothing, and that is the secret of this crisis.