Strategy Quotes

“Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offence; benefits ought to be handed out drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.”

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's.”

“In war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.”

“The art of war is simple; everything is a matter of execution.”

“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”

“Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.”

“Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.”

“By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto.”

“When you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect.”

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”

“Use steamroller strategy; that is, make up your mind on the course and direction of action, and stick to it.”

“In war the only sure defence is offence, and the efficiency of the offence depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”

“Nobody ever defended anything successfully; there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”

“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”

“Maximise your options.”

“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

“It's always good to be underestimated.”

“My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him.”

“Upon the report of an enemy's valour oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.”

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

Ulysses S. Grant

"Invert, always invert."

Charlie Munger

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

Norman Schwarzkopf

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.”