Quotes about Strategy

Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Figure out where you want to go; then work backwards from there.

If we think of ourselves as a corporation, it gives us a healthy distance on ourselves. We're less subjective. We don't take blows as personally. We're more cold-blooded; we can price our wares more realistically. Sometimes, as Joe Blow himself, I'm too mild-mannered to go out and sell. But as Joe Blow, Inc., I can pimp the hell out of myself. I'm not me anymore. I'm Me, Inc. I'm a pro.

End first, then beginning and middle. That's your startup, that's your plan for competing in a triathlon, that's your ballet.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.

Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

In America, racism is our oldest curse. But there are other divides—over religion, immigration, sexual identity. Sometimes the "them" strategy is just a narcotic to feed the beast in all of us.

The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.