Quotes About Tactics

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

Swiftness, intelligence can win a match. But patience is the real necessary skill.

I've never picked anyone up. I don't know how to pick up guys. I usually just camouflage myself as this wonderful person and let them come to me. It's easier that way.

Chess is a very interesting game, and like so many interesting games, it is not in any way fun. It looks like four horses lost amongst a variety of pepper mills and salt shakers, and the objective is to remain awake longer than your opponent.

Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

treat every warm call as though it's the coldest one you ever made. When emotions run hot and heavy in negotiations, the high-pitched voice is a sure sign of need. The rushed delivery is another sure sign. While needy negotiators raise their voices, negotiators under control lower their voices. So lower your voice in times of inner turmoil. Slow down.

The reverse should be preceded by a short nurturing statement, because you don't want to sound like a district attorney during cross-examination.

You want your human adversaries to see the pain, but you do not want to hit them between the eyes with it. You soften the blow, so to speak, with nurturing.

your adversary is building your positive expectations to close the deal. If you buy into these statements, he'll move right in and take the advantage.

In any negotiation, where do we want to spend as much time as possible? In the adversary's world.

The wise negotiator knows that only one person in a negotiation can feel okay, and that person is the adversary.

I think it was Socrates who said if you can't win a one-way argument, just pretend that you can read your opponent's mind.

Mind you, you have to have women around you in order to beat them—at the very least, they need to be within arm's reach.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. —Sun Tzu

Hegelian dialectic, or problem, reaction, solution. This method basically involves fabricating or intensify a problem, offering a draconian solution, then settling for a "compromise" that nevertheless furthers the intended goal.

The truth is that trading, both successful and unsuccessful, is more about psychology than tactics.

When in a superior bargaining position, one should never make the first move.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

Sometimes the best plays are performed behind the scenes

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.

I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.

Every time we can force our opponents into a bad decision, we win.