Quotes About Strategy

You go to war with the army you have—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

And with each new pitcher a hitter must adjust and adapt to a new repetoire of pitches.

In fact, I have reached the point where I don't see the value of switch-hitting at all.

We had long passed the stage where the consequences of tactical armed response were weighed in advance.

But in dealing with a man who thinks you a fool it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

Along with the fragmentation of markets is coming the fragmentation of marketing.

The way to compete with free is to move past the abundance to find the adjacent scarcity.

Free is not a magic bullet. Giving away what you do will not make you rich by itself. You have to think creatively about how to convert the reputation and attention you can get from free into cash.

4. You can make money from free.

Las empresas de mayor éxito en Internet sacan provecho de la larga cola de un modo u otro. Por ejemplo, Google obtiene la mayoría de sus ganancias no de las grandes empresas anunciantes, sino de las pequeñas

Some are just businessmen.

The future belongs to the puzzle solvers.

There are "no permanent enemies, no permanent allies, only permanent interests,"23 Saul Alinsky often said, paraphrasing the British prime minister Lord Palmerston.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

Whether we're up 2-0 early in the second half, or we're up 1-0 with 10 minutes left in the game, my mind-set is the same when I come in the game. It's to help keep that lead, whatever way I can.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.

I don't think I was a miracle man. Neither were Lou Holtz or Frank Leahy. We all found ways to win.

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.