Strategist Quotes · Page 2

I am the worst strategist ever.

— Fawad Khan

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

— Sun Tzu

“The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.”

— Bogdan Vaida

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

— Sun Tzu

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

— Sun Tzu

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

— Thaksin Shinawatra

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

— Sun Tzu

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

— Sun Tzu

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong…

— Sun Tzu

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

— Sun Tzu

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used…

— Peter Drucker

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ho Chi Minh rarely wrote about Sun Tzu, but when he did mention the ancient Chinese military strategist, he was always laudatory,…

— William J. Duiker

“The fanatic emphasis on ‘Plan B’ that professionals talk about is not a coward’s fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose…

— Andy Paula

“He has always rated Anne highly as a strategist. He has never believed in her as a passionate, spontaneous woman. Everything she…

— Hilary Mantel

“The strategist should take up specific situations only after the requirement for provision of the spectrum of concepts has been met, and…

— J.C. Wylie

“The essence of the art of war is deception. If able, fake inability; if close by, make believe you are far away.…

— Sergei Kostin

“I do not criticize the amateur strategist. On the contrary, I believe deeply that strategy is everybody’s business. Too many lives are…

— J.C. Wylie

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity…

— Sun Tzu

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed.…

— Sun Tzu

I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what…

— Chuck D

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It…

— Alexander Alekhine

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist,…

— Henry Mintzberg

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

— Sun Tzu

“You wound me I remove his hand and meet him in the eye. "No worse than I already have.”

— Joan He

Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.

— Sun Tzu

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

— Kenichi Ohmae

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

— Sun Tzu

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

— Sun Tzu

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

— Sun Tzu

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

— Colin Powell

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole…

— Sun Tzu

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order…

— Max McKeown

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

— Sun Tzu

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

— Tony Robbins

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death,…

— Sun Tzu

The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion…

— Garry Kasparov

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

— Bill Hybels