Strategy Quotes

“We have to choose our battles.”

“I believe in the politics of subtraction. The only way we're going to win is to bring the other side down.”

“If they punch you, punch them back twice as hard.”

“The buzzer is everything. It's a cruel, cruel mistress.”

“It is easy to get into a war, but it is much more difficult to get out of a war.”

“We have to work by, with and through the Iraqis.”

“In marriage, as in war, a strategem is permissible.”

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

“Offense sells tickets, defense wins championships.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

“The guiding principle of bombing is to hit the fewest number of targets to produce the greatest effect.”

“Fundraising is not about asking for money. It is about building relationships.”

“I'm not in the pizza business. I'm in the pizza delivery business.”

“My philosophy is to put on the best programs you can and to make sure people know about them.”

“Our whole approach was to do the opposite of what Disney did. If he went for charm, we went for gags. If he went for sweetness, we went for violence.”

“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”

“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”

“You build your program from the bottom up. There's no other way.”

“We have to be very careful that we don't alienate the people we are trying to win over.”

“Poker is a war. It's a game of controlled aggression. You have to be aggressive to win.”