Quotes About Tactics

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.

Be unconventional when you face a battle. Change the rules of engagement to your benefit.

Your ability to support your plans with a great strategy is the master skill for success.

In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just "Take care and play the game smart.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.

Never show a weapon before you have to use it

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.

contract. I'm trying to get us through this alive, and I don't want my strategy compromised by an amateur with

We have different tactics for dealing with sexism and racism; and one difficulty is that these tactics can be in tension. When we give problems their names, we can become a problem for those who do not want to talk about a problem even though they know there is a problem. You can cause a problem by not letting things recede.

That would have been too obvious, Matt said. You just said I never choose scissors so you had to know I would choose scissors so I couldn't choose scissors because you'd know it. Hence, the rock. Hence the paper covering your rock. You ask her. Well played my friend, Matt said. Well played.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too. - Sir Denis Nayland Smith

muitas vezes, quem sai vencedor de uma disputa deve sua vitória não tanto à correção de seu julgamento na exposição de sua tese, mas, antes, à astúcia e habilidade com que a defendeu.

Battle platforms were a recent addition to Cruz's arsenal. They were the size of cities, floating on the ocean

I have extensive business experience across a variety of fields, so most of what Trump was doing looked familiar to me. For example, where others saw Trump pushing outrageously impractical and even immoral policies, I saw him using standard negotiating tactics and hyperbole to make it easier to find the middle ground later. And he did.

But business writers will recognize Trump's strategy as what I will call the new-CEO move. Smart CEOs try to create visible victories within days of taking the job, to set the tone. It's all about the psychology.

By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the total number of men Lawrence had projected would be needed to secure Alexandretta.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game

Galula had noted that counterinsurgency is only 20 percent military and 80 percent everything else—politics mostly, but also economics, development, and information operations.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.