Quotes about Strategy

Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

It's not how high you jump, how fast you run. All you guys here can run faster, jump higher. But I'll tell you, I can get my friend Larry Bird and the two of us will play any two of you and when it's all said and done, we will get the last laugh.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this fight.

It is true: an army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep! I am a person of action.

the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.