Quotes About Tactics

Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.

The thing worth noting with manipulators is, curiously, once you realize what they are, they become strikingly easy to manipulate. —

That fucking asshole has figured out something we haven't. Two words: white victimhood. That's it. He can tap into that like he's a, a, a, I dunno, but that's what it is. That's the gas he's putting in his car to make it go, and he's going to beat us in the primary because of it. He's got no shame, and that's how he wins.

War is but a continuation of diplomacy by alternate means.

Isaac Bell slowly laid his cards on the table one by one. "A straight flush

is almost a certainty that a well-planned offense will defeat an unplanned defense every single time.

Stickups were chops - they cook fast and hot, you're in and out. A stakeout was ribs - fire down low, slow, taking your time.

Are you trying to bribe me?" "Only if it works

To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one's opponent.

There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one's opponent.

instead of fighting the system, it was often better to say yes and then go off and do whatever you thought was best.

He had the gift of all great tacticians. He could focus on the smallest detail and never lose sight of the overall picture.

They had too many rules, and they were in a war against an enemy who had none.

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

luck, of course, will always play a role, as it does with all strategies

strategy perforce becomes a zero-sum game where one company's gain is another company's loss

Strategy is heavily influenced by its roots in military strategy. The very language of strategy is deeply imbued with military references— chief executive "officers" in "headquarters," "troops" on the "front lines." Described this way, strategy is all about red ocean competition. It is about confronting an opponent and driving him off a battlefield of limited territory.

Organizational politics is an inescapable reality of corporate and public life.

strategy is about confronting an opponent and fighting over a given piece of land that is both limited and constant.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win.

We're more of a bag-and-tag operation.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.