Strategy Quotes

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

The formulation of a public relations strategy properly begins with listening, not talking.

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Firing someone who is investigating you is a counterproductive strategy.

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

Data is great, but strategy is better

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

The only known cure for fear is faith.

In Speaking Out I do my best to answer those questions I was asked and more, and I provide strategies for how to speak out and keep on speaking out without burning out.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.