Quotes about Strategy

Too many marketers spend most of their time running a hype show, trying to get just a little bigger.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.

A good hunter did not rush into a den of lions unprepared, and Dante was a very good hunter.

It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Part of my responsibility as an officer was to oversee a team of analysts charged with synthesizing all of the data points on the map to see how one related to another. By bringing those data points together, a broader picture could be drawn and a strategy developed to counter the existing threat.

Direct threats require decisive action.

Every great summer party starts with a list. Throwing something together chaotically ends up being more work than taking 15 minutes to make a plan first.

I don't want to get good at throwing off schedule because I don't want to be off schedule. I want to have my protections to be solid, I want to be in the right play, and I want to get the ball out of my hands as quick as possible.