Quotes about Strategy

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.

I think long-term, not short-term.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Delay. Procrastinate. Postpone. This is our evangelism strategy.

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.

Thus, so far we have seen that: We are engaged in a war. Our enemy is Satan. The mind is the battlefield. The devil works diligently to set up strongholds in our mind. He does it through strategy and deceit (through well-laid plans and deliberate deception). He is in no hurry; he takes his time to work out his plan.