Quotes About Strategy

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Artillery is the god of war.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.