Quotes About Tactics

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

He should creep on by clandestine acts, and not contend in open battle according to the practice of those who excel in courage; he should secretly try many schemes, and thus stealthily extend his empire.

On July 12, 1588, the Spanish Armada set sail for the Netherlands. The English were outnumbered and outgunned. However, fortune smiled on the English when they caught the Armada anchored in close formation near Calais. At midnight on July 28, the English sent fireships loaded with pitch, brimstone, and gunpowder directly into the heart of the Armada.

Well, if I'm not mistaken, if I take your king's

Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

Life is a kind of chess.

Although Meade's Army of the Potomac, under the personal direction of Grant, did suffer high casualties (41 percent) during its drive to the James River, it imposed even higher casualties on Lee's army (46 percent). In

Jarrett favored "the Chicago Way." Let Obama pat Clinton on the back so he would know later where to stick the knife.

In politics, you either eat the baby or you are the baby.

Unlike some hedge fund managers who also had a waiting list, we could have increased our fees by raising our share of the profits or adding more capital, thereby driving down the return to limited partners. Such tactics by the general partner to capture nearly all the excess risk-adjusted return, or "alpha," rather than share it with the other investors are what economic theory predicts. Instead, I preferred to treat limited partners as I would wish to be treated in their place.

I decided to begin by finding the best strategy to use when I knew which cards had already been played.

It's not the power you possess, but using the power of the opposition against itself that changes things. It's called political jujitsu [an Alinsky phrase]. You must go outside the opponent's [Big Boys] experience. You aim the action for the inevitable reaction, knowing that the reaction is more important than your action itself.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.

My long expected warning came to me when I noticed that, one after another, those stocks which had been the leaders of the market reacted several points from the top and—for the first time in many months—did not come back. Their race evidently was run, and that clearly necessitated a change in my trading tactics.

Though this guard is natural to them, yet they vary every moment, to perplex their adversaries,

People were born with two hands; why not use both of them? As it was, swordsmen fought with only one sword, and often one hand. This made sense, so long as everybody followed the same practice. But if one combatant were to employ two swords at once, what chance would an opponent using only one have of winning?

The battlefield is no place for jokes