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Strategy Quotes

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.

It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were eloquently simple dictates of conscience.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

So we have had to dispense with the indispensable.

I play my enemies like a game of chess.

Losing my virginity was a career move.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Every neighbouring state is an enemy and the enemy's enemy is a friend.

The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.

Focusing is all about saying no.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.