Quotes About Tactics

I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake," she said

You've played me at my own game, and ably. I thought you capable of nothing but overt action. Clearly I underestimated you." "Don't feel bad," I said. "I mean, I look so stupid.

Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

Hindenburg than to win a majority. As

Strategy," Porter writes, "can be viewed as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position in the industry where the forces are weakest.

I am not a player...I'm the game.

The greater conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician—which was what the General had become—had to keep his lips constantly moving.

Our proper mode in situations where demand was high and supply was low was to elbow, jostle, crowd, and hustle, and, if all that failed, to bribe, flatter, exaggerate, and lie.

You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.

I am pointing out the fact that we are involved in a conflict with the forces of hell, which consist of Satan, demons, and non-Christians. This conflict is spiritual and intellectual in nature, and it is on this level that our aggression applies. Our weapons include earnest petitions toward God and proclamations toward men, and not the superficial and inferior tactics of terrorism, which might cause the flesh to submit but can never change the heart.

It was at this time that he formulated a basic principle for the conduct of the Battle of Britain: that it was better to spoil the aim of many German aircraft than to shoot down a few of them.2

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

God is always on the side of the big battalions.

Executives are paralyzed by the muddle. Few employees deep down in the company even know what the strategy is. And a closer look reveals that most plans don't contain a strategy at all but rather a smorgasbord of tactics that individually make sense but collectively don't add up to a unified, clear direction that sets a company apart—let alone makes the competition irrelevant. Does this sound like the strategic plans in your company?

The planning process doesn't produce strategy