Jede Veränderung dieser Lage, welche durch die fortgesetzte kriegerische Tätigkeit hervorgebracht wird, muß also zu einer noch nachteiligeren führen, wenigstens in der Vorstellung. Die schlimmste Lage, in die ein Kriegführender kommen kann, ist die gänzliche...

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn’t. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not...

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine’s Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration’s overall economic development strategy.

Noble though it may be, our way of life is nothing but servitude. It does not take long for servitude to turn to subjugation.– Shikandin Draupada

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

Ciente de tuas capacidades e limitações, não inicies nenhuma empreitada que não possas levar a cabo.

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

Death is my exit strategy. I’ll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Das eigensüchtige Handeln der Akteure wird nicht unbedingt durch eine unsichtbare Hand zum eigenen oder kollektiven Erfolg geführt; was als nützlicher Zug schlau kalkuliert war, kann sich wegen unerwarteter Reaktionen und Nachwirkungen als katastrophal erweisen.

Can you define “plan” as “a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance”? If so, it was a very good plan.

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must...

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he...

Danger has a bracing effect.

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.

…; denn wenn wir dort, wo ungünstige Bedingungen vorliegen, nicht einen Teil unseres Gebietes aufgeben, sondern uns blindlings in Entscheidungskämpfe stürzen, bei denen nicht die geringste Aussicht auf einen Sieg besteht, werden wir unsere gesamte...

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.

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

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.

The art of war is the art of deception.

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

Je kleiner das Opfer ist, welches wir von unserem Gegner fordern, um so geringer dürfen wir erwarten, daß seine Anstrengungen sein warden, es uns zu versagen. Je geringer aber diese sind, um so kleiner dürfen...

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don’t want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don’t want...

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

A new age dawns, Uttara. The Wheel of Time has turned. Not too long from now – hopefully in our lifetime – Aryavarta will be a janapada, a realm ruled by its people, the largest...

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’.

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country — its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you’d better hope he’s half asleep.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn’t like losing at all.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one’s main weight.

Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece…in order to win.

The doctrine of “exit strategy” fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

A good strategy and solid play doesn’t revolve around tricks. It doesn’t revolve around surprises. It doesn’t revolve around having hidden information. It revolves around very solid strong timing, and crisp execution.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.