Strategy Quotes

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...

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for ...

Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not ...

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow a...

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- i...

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your...

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of vi...

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or ...

Danger has a bracing effect.

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will fo...

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sud...

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will fo...

If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow ...

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a h...

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin...

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the s...

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to...

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not ...

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is ...

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

If his forces are united, separate them.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy wi...