Quotes About Strategy

In a war zone you know exactly where the threats are coming from. I plan my way in and we plan our way out and you're there for a limited period of time.

I would be lying to you if I haven't been out on the football field and told a quarterback to give me a post route and simulated me catching it and running into the end zone, envisioning scoring that game-winning touchdown.

Whenever I get the ball in my hands, I just try to get the thing as north as possible and get in the end zone.

I'm a zone guy. I'm a man guy.

For me, that's the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw you pitches, you'll be able to drive the ball a little bit better.

I'd like to continue to reduce the amount of balls I swing at outside the strike zone. I've been told I have a really low number, one of the lowest percentages in the game, but there's no reason it shouldn't be the lowest.

There's only a certain percentage of the strike zone that you can do extra-base hit, barrel damage with the ball. Just because it's in the strike zone doesn't mean you have to take a cut at it.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

The best ad is a good product.

When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.