Quotes About Tactics

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but shouldn't we be flying in the other direction?" They were close enough now to see the wide-eyed anpu in the nearest craft. "We will," Prometheus said. "Just as soon as the missiles explode." "Which missiles?" Shakespeare asked. "The two just behind us.

Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

Always be wary of grabbing material at the cost of the coordination of your pieces.

Because Rule #11 of a gunfight was: "Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose." Al-Sîf

The last thing they need is Lieutenant Gorman telling them to lay down suppressing fire with flame units and fall back by squads.

He pointed out his success comes from having a slight edge and proper betting.

The campaign, on its face, was not designed to win anything.

if they don't respond to sucking up, they might respond to piling on.

That was the way to crush the liberals: make them crazy and drag them to the left.

His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was ruled out as a buyer, there was no reason not to heap scorn and lawsuits on him or her.

In politics, the smart move is not to say no and to know how to finesse yes.

He believed he could spook the other side.

In mutually codependent fashion, Ivanka relied on Dina to suggest management tactics that would help her handle her father and the White House, while Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.

All warfare is based on deception." —Sun Tzu Not

Pragmatic and clever, he was quite Machiavellian in his approach: "It is better to be feared than loved," he'd say. "Hide your vulnerabilities . . ." "Pick your own time and place for confrontations . . ." "Be truthful but not offensive.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

No plan survives contact with the enemy." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

the ingredients for the best political donnybrook

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.