Quotes about Strategy

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it

a planner-the sort of person who could size up a situation and take control and be rewarded with a good outcome.

Satan is an opportunist.

But on the seventh day, march around the city seven times… .Then the city wall will collapse, and the people will advance. Joshua 6:4—5

We are not a minor power in the Middle East; we are a significant player.

Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.

If we think of ourselves as a corporation, it gives us a healthy distance on ourselves. We're less subjective. We don't take blows as personally. We're more cold-blooded; we can price our wares more realistically. Sometimes, as Joe Blow himself, I'm too mild-mannered to go out and sell. But as Joe Blow, Inc., I can pimp the hell out of myself. I'm not me anymore. I'm Me, Inc. I'm a pro.

End first, then beginning and middle. That's your startup, that's your plan for competing in a triathlon, that's your ballet.

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

For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.