Quotes About Strategy

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

Preparing for another opponent isn't very glamorous. But it's Hollywood. You want to see the fun parts. The meeting rooms are not super fun.

If anybody,wants to get rid of us, then this is a different approach. However, we will get over it; you never know who is going to lose more with such an approach.

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

Why does McDonald's have to count every burger that they sell? What is their ultimate goal? Do they want cows to surrender voluntarily?

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.