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Strategy Quotes


"Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: "Only true enemies stab you in the front."


"Be unconventional when you face a battle. Change the rules of engagement to your benefit."


"I am amazed upon the many battle that we engage in, be it money, control or matters of the heart, only very few of us knows how to fight in the right way or understand who we are really fighting against. To win any battle you' ve got to have the right strategy and resources because victories don't come by accident."



"The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life."


"Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules."


"Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist."


"Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks."


"We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."


"Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you gone crazy? They'll..." Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing." "Exactly," said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height." "Let's drop rocks on them!"


"Before you eat the elephant, make sure you know what parts you want to eat."


"Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves."



"If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve."


"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."


"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."


"Why do people seek one and not the other? It is the majorities that are led and they normally follow those who can help them meet their ever-present and growing needs. Question is, do you possess the kind of solutions they want? Are you well positioned to reach them or to be reachable by those who can benefit from your solution to their challenges?"


"I bet you anything that 10 times out of 10, Nicky, Vinny and Tony will beat the shit out of Todd, Kyle and Tucker."


"Whilst the greatest threat to your mission is the internal aspects within you, the external circumstances need to be covered against as well. Scan your external environment and circumstances."


"A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves early in the day that the battle was lost, so it was lost."


"If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields."


"To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day isn't running away, but looking for another road towards the same destination."


"Moments of thinking are your military moments because they are the moments where you take the opportunity to attack and eliminate your problems!"


"Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize."



"Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive."



"A relationship is a game of chess."



"Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?""Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain.""Done that once today," Jason said."


"From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take."


"To achieve your desired success you have to be effectively selling something and to be significant in impact, you must be teaching somehow. How effectively are you selling and how well are you teaching?"


"A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win."



"If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it."
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