Quotes about Strategy
Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.
- Brian Tracy
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
You don't win battles you walk away from.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.
- Michael Green
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan
The campaign, on its face, was not designed to win anything.
- Michael Wolff
there was another rationalization: Trump was "inspirational not operational.
- Michael Wolff
company built around the instincts, impulses, and gambles of its leader?
- Michael Wolff
In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can't win unless you believe that you will win—except in the Trump campaign.
- Michael Wolff
this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his intuition must be profound.
- Michael Wolff
Jared and Ivanka had made an earnest deal between themselves: if sometime in the future the time came, she'd be the one to run for president (or the first one of them to take the shot).
- Michael Wolff
In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers we cannot work with, and those without enough power whom we can functionally disregard or sacrifice. It was cold war stuff. And, indeed, in the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.
- Michael Wolff