Quotes about Strategy

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

He analyses every strategy and asks: what would I do if I had to fight myself? He thus discover his weak points.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat

Take the eighteenth-century general who had fallen into disfavor with the great Prussian warrior king, Frederick the Great. Coming upon the king, the general saluted him with the greatest respect, but Frederick turned his back. "I am happy to see that Your Majesty is no longer angry with me," murmured the general. "How so?" demanded Frederick. "Because Your Majesty has never in his life turned his back on an enemy," replied the general.

Effective negotiation requires a persistent focus on what is most important.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.

I think what pace bowlers need to do in T20 cricket is not just run up and bowl fast. It's not about brute pace in T20, it's about the variation.

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.