1,050 Quotes About Strategy

No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.

Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)

Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win...

You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.