Quotes about Strategy

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

So she decided on a different approach.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

The only way the devil can hurt God is through humans, and so he focuses upon us. His strategy is to try to frustrate God's purpose for humanity

Those who continue to be mastered by their feelings—whether it is anger, fear, sexual attraction, desire for food or for "looking good," the residues of woundedness, or whatever—are typically persons who in their heart of hearts believe that their feelings must be satisfied. They have long chosen the strategy of selectively resisting their feelings instead of that of not having them—of simply changing or replacing them.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.