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.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

ThiNKing Too MucH caN DisTurbs Your Other ImPortaNt StraTegies :p SO StoP thiNking taKe ActiOn :p

It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it gave rise is sad to think upon. But the present generation will probably...

The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a...

Ein magisches Schnellverfahren gibt es nicht.

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

Organize, don’t agonize.

Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish mane of hair disappear into the trees well out of...

Die beste Strategie ist: immer recht stark sein, … . Daher gibt es … kein höheres und einfacheres Gesetz für die Strategie als das: seine Kräfte zusammenhalten.

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in...

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

Without love, we would not comprehend compassion.- Govinda Shauri

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone’s spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your...

Quão lamentável é arriscar tudo em um único combate, negligenciando a estratégia vitoriosa, e fazer com que o destino de tuas armas dependa de uma única batalha!

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Be selective in your battles…

Sturm, Swung, Wucht

Backing yourself into a corner is a terrible strategy, in that it leaves you nowhere to run. But it’s brilliant in that it brings out the fierce in you, because you are forced to fight.

When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

Kestrel’s cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people...

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy…attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders’.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

..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.

For her own breakfast she’ll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a strategem.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn...

Das bedeutet, daß ein Sieg – selbst wenn er in der ersten Schlacht gewonnen wurde – nur als Niederlage gewertet werden kann, wenn er dem Feldzug im ganzen mehr schadet als hilft.

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker...

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven’t seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they’re absolutely...

Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.