Quotes about Strategy

If finite games must be externally bounded by time, space, and number, they must also have internal limitations on what the players can do to and with each other. To agree on internal limitations is to establish rules of play.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

What we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars. I've talked to a lot of the generals, a lot of our advanced people. And believe me, if we gave them the mission, which is what the commander-in-chief does, they would be able to carry it out.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

That's just the way the cards fall in the UFC. It's about what's going to make them the most money. It's not about what makes the most sense.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.