“They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions.… — Stephen Morrill Copy Share Image
It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
“Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election,… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
“I had it all planned. Or, not planned exactly, but I'd planned to make plans. Plans were very much part of my… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
I've ordered plans to begin for the massive rebuilding of the United States military. Had great support from the Senate. I've had… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
When you're in operations, the best thing you can do at the top level is get the strategy right. You have to… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My biggest fear is that we [Unilever company] at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
You can gain a lot of time from an aggressive strategy, but you can lose a lot of time from an aggressive… — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process. — Stacy Brown-Philpot Copy Share Image
A feasible North Korea strategy must consider how to reassure China that our objectives on the peninsula are not aggressive. — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
“They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world. — John Medina Copy Share Image
“Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“under the Marshall Plan, the United States offered aid to any country needing it, provided that they were not affiliated with Communism.” — Hourly History Copy Share Image
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
If your employees are disengaged, and they don't take care of your customers, it doesn't matter how good your strategy is -… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot,… — Roy Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This… — John Woodward Copy Share Image
“When writing down a plan, I suggest numbering the steps. But just in case your plan falls into enemy hands, make sure… — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned… — John W. Vessey, Jr Copy Share Image
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the… — Bernard Kouchner Copy Share Image
I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of… — Giovanni Agnelli Copy Share Image