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.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

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.

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

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.