Quotes About Strategy

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.

Sometimes directly asking for what you want is not the best way to achieve a desired result." As this story shows, good negotiation is a continual exploration of the realm of possibilities.

In many cases, your success is going to depend on your ability to think in reverse, something Trump is a master of. Thinking in reverse comes into play when you make a proposal that is so outrageous that you know it has no chance of acceptance in its raw form and then reversing your course and agreeing to modify your proposal to make it more palatable for the other side.

Once you have established trust and rapport (although often this happens simultaneously), the next step in a negotiation is to begin searching out the other side's wish list and identifying their strengths and weaknesses.

What the big print on the front giveth, the little print on the back taketh away!" If you want to be a successful negotiator, force yourself to read everything carefully. Conversely, there's nothing wrong with hiding something that's important to you but likely to be unacceptable to the other side in an inconspicuous place. If it's spotted and raised by the other side, discuss it normally; never plead guilty to using trickery.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

It may be a sad commentary, but it is a fact that many people equate political campaigns with television advertising. If you're on the air, you're campaigning; if you're not on the air, you're nowhere. Just days after the first ad appeared, several people I encountered commented on it.

Evolutionary biologists have identified a rule they call the life/dinner principle. A predator puts less effort into the chase than its prey: if the hunter fails it loses only its dinner, if the hunted fails it loses its life.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country

Never wound a foe when you can kill him

A good king knows when to save his strength and when to destroy his enemies.

Who'd want to kill the likes of you?" "My lord father, for one. He's put me in the van." "I'd do the same. A small man with a big shield. You'll give the archers fits.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.