Quotes About Tactics

The best way to play poker is to act like Jesus but play like the devil.

politician twenty-two years her senior, had been calculated, strategized, and arranged. It was

The goal was to defeat the enemy by limiting its ability to make good decisions.

Are you familiar with the strategic concept of competitive control areas?" Ash asked. "Yes," Stets said.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Allí estaba el mundo deslumbrante de la caza, la táctica, la destreza y la alegría salvaje; y allí estaba también el mundo de las añoranzas y el sentido común desconcertado.

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Hitler, always at his best when he detected weakness in an opponent

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow

To [Chinese], war does not revolve around fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict.

marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count.

created this framework to be useful for people who don't have scads of authority or resources. Some people can get their way by fiat. CEOs, for instance, can

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count. Recall

The last defense of the charlatan is always that something is 'strategic.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

And remember this: whenever possible, don't fight openly with your enemy. Let them think they've won—and then strike when least expected.

A wise person allows herself to be used when it suits her purpose. She pretends weakness, then waits for the right moment to take control.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

Through our experiences, effective tactical objectives contain four distinct, necessary elements. Each objective must be specific, winnable, assessable, and time bound. An objective missing any of those key elements is much less likely to be realized by the objective setter.

Like I said earlier, it sounds like I'll need a plan B, said Porter. Because I can't see them going for any of that bollocks. They've had more peace plans than I've had bottles of vodka, and if they wanted money, they would have asked for it by now.

So from here on out, we need to find a way to fight the killer with brains, not brawn. Attack this problem like scientists, not... Dirty Harry.