Quotes about Strategy

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

God had a strategy in the ugly places because those were the fields in which he decided to cultivate us.

We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don't fear the shadows it creates.

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.

I'm not doing one lucky punch or spinning kick and catching somebody. I'm going to own you - not beat you - own you from the first bell to the last bell.

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

You could summarize Jesus' leadership strategy as follows: I'll do it; you watch. We'll do it together. You do it; I'll watch. You do it!

It was a great time being with Blake & Murphy. I always made sure that, even if their matches weren't going the way they wanted to, they went the way that I wanted to.

You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.