You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security.Sources are split in their assessment of the importance of nuclear weapons and the validity of...

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

Aber alle diese Opfer, welche der Verteidiger bringt, verursachen ihm meistens einen Ausfall an Kräften, die nur mittelbar, also später und nicht unmittelbar auf seine Streitkräfte wirkt, und oft so mittelbar, daß die Wirkung wenig...

The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan...

If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.

Men like you and I make myths, we weave stories to sanctify the life that has been given to us. But not Govinda. Men like him don’t make myths; they make destiny. – Kshatta Vidur

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for...

Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.

Never venture, never win!

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

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

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely...

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

If you don’t have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.

Every advantage is temporary.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the...

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose...

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

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If you aren’t preparing for life like a war, you’ll end up living like a prisoner of war.

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Sich übereilt auf einen Kampf einlassen, heißt ohne sichere Aussicht auf Sieg kämpfen.

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

[Harper] once told a friend, “I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day,” and it was only a small exaggeration.

Don’t put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

Leaders need to sacrifice “power-over” to get “power-to”.

Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game. Never forget that, all right? Never forget the potential one solitary pawn has to change the...

Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen.

I believe that if that vision or dream comes from God, He will also give you the strategy to bring it to pass.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life – that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when...

You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta; you are the one who has brought us to this.– Panchali Draupadi

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be...

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy’s numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the...

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.