Quotes about Strategy
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been
- Wayne Gretzky
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke
For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.
- James H. Cone
The satanic strategy of using lies to disguise, divide, and destroy. Let's focus on the middle word of Satan's plan to defeat you. The word is divide and his strategy is to get a wedge between you and men who can support God's work in your life through loving mutual community. As always he does this through lies.
- James MacDonald
It is the desire of all finite players to be Master Players, to be so perfectly skilled in their play that nothing can surprise them, so perfectly trained that every move in the game is foreseen at the beginning.
- James Carse
A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.
- James Carse
Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in the game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.
- James Carse
If finite games must be externally bounded by time, space, and number, they must also have internal limitations on what the players can do to and with each other. To agree on internal limitations is to establish rules of play.
- James Carse
The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'
- Glenn Beck
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
- Clayton M. Christensen