Strategy Quotes

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only f...

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things g...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagoni...

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the fi...

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has...

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the a...

We propose to consider first the single elements of our subject, then each branch of part, and, last...

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said so...

In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Hope is not a strategy

Study the past if you would define the future.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with y...

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Leba...

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itse...

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a strategem.

Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient...

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to t...

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's m...

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is ...

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and unde...

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distan...

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but t...

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they d...

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into acco...

There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is p...

One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

The best defense is a good offense.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you devel...

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must co...

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best custom...

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than ...

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform ...

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess,...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a ...

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson...

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enem...

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strateg...

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. ...

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ...

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind y...

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of ...

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you m...

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may t...

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it ...

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w...

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on o...

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothin...

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforc...

Those moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray and authority is...

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

The art of war is the art of deception.

If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if...

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

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them...

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he ...

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we ma...

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can...

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to...

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of i...

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoev...