Quotes about Strategy
The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A sharp stick is better than a blunt sword.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
To catch any fish, give it what it eats.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.
- John McDonnell
War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
- Mark McKinnon
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ben's chances in the campaign.
- Terri Blackstock
Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.
- Theodore Roosevelt