c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.
— H. Raven Rose, Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose
They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
My life is exactly what it's meant to be, and I'm okay. I'm. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I'm not perfect, I'm not completely healed, but I'm okay. I'll take it.
— Ashley Beale, Illusion
You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.
— Ashley Beale, Illusion
I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.
— Ashley Beale, Illusion
Life is short, do not hesitate!Enjoyed and lived Now because Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is only an illusion!
— Ebelsain Villegas
We live in an illusion of safety while we hide in caves made ​​of glass looking for trees of concrete. Even our music resounds with the drums of the past. 
— J.B.Alves
The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness...but only within its subject’s mind.	The power it held was real, but it was not a physical power. It was the power of persuasion, the power of illusion.	Mr. Bradshaw was a genius.
— Embee, Tess Embers
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings
—  he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature.
What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion,The Indians termed Maya or Illusion.
— Mohit.K.Misra
Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.
— Seth Hawkins
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
— Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction Of Religious Thought In Islam
Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine?
— Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
What's not there is.
— Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal
...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may all be an illusion.
— Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385
Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
— R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts
Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
— Lauren DeStefano, Fever
Death is merely an illusion of the departed... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he or she isn't there. Just because you cannot physically see someone that isn't here, doesn't mean that they aren't there.
— Lionel Suggs
Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured ourselves behind them. We kept pouring until we were biggest and strongest, elected the greatest generals and found the most weapons, thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness. But nothing so obvious could ever work.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
He then explained his new philosophy, which followed the devastating discovery that Love and Friendship were the veriest illusions. He explained that people married because their sexual appetite had to be satisfied and there must be somebody to manage the house. There was nothing deeper than that in any man and woman relationship.
— R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher
Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
— Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander
— Rixa White
Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.
— Tom Holt, In Your Dreams
People wear masks in the light because true happiness are the agents of deception and delusion.
— Lionel Suggs
It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.
— Lionel Suggs
Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion
— Rixa White
- I see the real world, Nancy. But it doesn't seem real to me.- How does it seem?- It seems like an illusion that nobody notices.
— Stevie Mikayne, Jellicle Girl
Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.
— John Meade Falkner, The Lost Stradivarius
A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.
— Gianni Sarcone
What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
— Tsugumi Ohba
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting
—  but never hit soft!
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
— Alvin Toffler
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
— Michael E. Porter, What Is Strategy?
When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.
— Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
— Chin-Ning Chu, The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu's Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work
Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win...
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with “looking good” a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Fools
The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
— John Christopher, When the Tripods Came
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
— Horatio Nelson
Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer
— Robert Lynn Asprin, Myth Conceptions
That's when I realized that as long as you don't broadcast your beefs, you can get away cold with murder. It's even better if you don't allow the beef to take place. If someone disrespects you, you can know in your heard that you're going to get him, but you don't have to show him there's a beef. You can just look at it like, Okay, this nigga must not know. And then you fall back and you put it down.
— 50 Cent, From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
When you know your enemy is invincible,run and hide, or may do business with him.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
— Andrew Vachss, Footsteps of the Hawk
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
— Andrew Vachss
They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.
— Reggie Joiner, Think Orange: Imagine the Impact When Church and Family Collide...
Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
— Howard Tayler
Maxim 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
— Howard Tayler
The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die.
— Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.
— Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web
If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.
— Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.
— Lawrence Martin, Harperland: The Politics Of Control
The eminent strategy had won yesterday,but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.
— Vernor Vinge, The Children of the Sky
Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26
— Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26
— Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26
— Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
By confusing strategy with tactics and mixing up “what” and “how”, we may have a hard time staying on point. ”What” we want, on the one hand, and “how” we want to achieve it, on the other, needs a careful reading and a singular approach. (“When the bar is set too high”)
— Erik Pevernagie
Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
— Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams  Reaching Your Destiny
If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment.If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25
— Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
Trying to guess the enemy’s next move is useful
—  trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.
The organizational design is part of digital strategy management which needs to go neck-in-neck with performance management for improving organizational effectiveness and maturity.
— Pearl Zhu, Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.
— Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy
Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.
— Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy
I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on
—  the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.
What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside from the prize at the end. She gets a rush from the gaming dynamics and appreciates the beauty of the game. At the end of the day, you play for the love of the game or not at all.
— Alisa Melekhina, Reality Check: What the Ancient Game of Chess Can Teach You About Success in Modern Competitive Settings
Strategies that did well in competition with other strategies were not, however, those that maximized the returns to agents. Rather, we found a strong inverse relationship between the mean fitness of individuals in populations containing only one strategy, and that strategy's performance in the tournament. This finding illustrates the parasitic effect of strategies that rely heavily on OBSERVE. Strategies using a mixture of social and asocial learning are vulnerable to being outcompeted by those using social learning alone, which may result in a population with lower average returns. These findings are evocative of an established rule in ecology; this specifies that, among competitors for a scarce resource, the dominant competitor will be the species that can persist at the lowest resource level. An equivalent rule may apply when alternative social learning strategies compete: the strategies that eventually dominates will be the one that can persist with the lowest frequency of asocial learning.
— Kevin N. Laland, Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
Someone once told me that, when your operations are not good, you should not talk strategy," says Iyer. "Fair enough. But the opposite is also true. If operations are good, then you must talk strategy.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25
— Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25
— Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
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— The Sure Bettor
Do not confuse good tactics with good luck.
— D.E.A. unknown
That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...
— Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Vol 2
If all we’re prepared for is unconventional warfare, suddenly a massed conventional attack becomes an asymmetric advantage.
— Chris Penningroth
To discover strategy is to fulfill mandate
— Sunday Adelaja
A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy
— Gary Hamel
Marketing should never be just a blunt instrument.
— Terry O'Reilly
Agility within and of itself is a strategy.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
A good strategy tells you not only what specifically needs to accomplish, but WHY.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The strategy is about putting a good team together to give you a multifaceted picture zooming into the business culture.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The CIO is a serious partner in the inner circle to creating value-added strategies and enabling deeper insights into the opportunities IT can do.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Strategy is about heading North while keeping an eye on the South.
— Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty
Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.
— Daniel Egger, Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
Hope is not a strategy
— Colin Powell
Strategists seek to increase available options by manipulating structure and context, and in this way dictate the terms of conflict. One of the most captivating discussions of manipulating rules and boundaries to further the end of politics is in William Riker’s thought-provoking conception of heresthetics. Riker produces more than a dozen examples of a master strategist’s manipulation of perceptions, agendas, rules, and procedures to assure the strategist’s desired results would ensue. The strategist does not seek a specific outcome or decision; instead the process of decision-making is altered to increase the likelihood that a desired decision will be made. In most cases, the strategist provides additional choices for the opponent, inducing the other side to make a decision that was not previously apparent, but now seems necessary. By increasing the choices of others, strategists increase their own power.
— Everett C. Dolman
Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!
— Deyth Banger
A strategic IT is a silver lining for a high-performing business.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
Make the strategy a living thing, which can breathe life into people and the culture.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.
— Pearl Zhu, CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of It
If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.
— Lionel Suggs
The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a rabbit, and the rabbit gets away, that rabbit will always somehow instinctively run in a circle and return sooner or later past the very spot where he originally was jumped. Well, the old men would just sit and wait in hiding somewhere for the rabbit to come back, then get their shots at him. I got to thinking about it, and finally I thought of a plan. I would separate from them and Big Boy and I would go to a point where I figured that the rabbit, returning, would have to pass me first.It worked like magic. I began to get three and four rabbits before they got one. The astonishing thing was that none of the old men ever figured out why. They outdid themselves exclaiming what a sure shot I was. I was about twelve, then. All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business—you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
— Malcolm X
While you're taking your minute to think, consider the possible outcomes. Immediately discard any that involve making the Bully back down and admit that you're right. You cannot be right and effective at the same time.
— Albert J. Bernstein, Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry
Strategy is not about doing things…it's about doing things deliberately.
— Buffi Neal
Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
The speaker instructs his audience to cheer wildly at the word tomorrow -- then forgot. When he used the word building toward the climax of his presentation, he was so started he fell off the stage.
— David Urso
An angry enemy is a conquered enemy
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
The move is there, but you must see it.
— Savielly Tartakower
It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.
— Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.
— Kaoru Kurimoto, The Battle of Nospherus
We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.
— Carl von Clausewitz
Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
— David Halberstam, The Powers That Be
The art of war is the art of deception.
— Sun Tzu
Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
It is time to euthanize change management.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.
— Robert Moment, How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking With Easy to Use Ideas, Tips and Strategies
Our relations seemed poor to me, and I wasn't surprised that the US intelligence picture in the Horn of Africa was weak. Much of what I read consisted of recycled news headlines repackaged as intelligence. Real, valuable intelligence only came from real people, yet we hadn't done much to meet and work with the people.
— Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
A person with the best strategy never gets angry.
— Debasish Mridha
In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
— Craig Newmark
Strategy is 5 percent thinking, 95 percent execution. And strategy execution is 5 percent technical, 95 percent people-related.
— Professor Quy Huy INSEAD
It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
... throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless theapproach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it.The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
A good strategy and solid play doesn't revolve around tricks. It doesn't revolve around surprises. It doesn't revolve around having hidden information. It revolves around very solid strong timing, and crisp execution.
— Sean "Day 9 " Plott
The best defense is a good offense.
— Jack  Dempsey
Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they’re mainly attributions based on performance, is a different matter.
— Philip M. Rosenzweig, The Halo Effect: How Managers let Themselves be Deceived
If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.
— Scott Farris, Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure
A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.
— George Friedman
Everything’s an act. Everything’s strategy.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.
— Richard Heuer
Though Moltke was working with subordinates who were totally lacking in comprehension for whatever strategic plans he may have entertained and who on occasion abused the independence granted them, those plans were sufficiently flexible to accommodate errors; that is, a large safety margin was left to ensure that mistakes would not develop into catastrophes.
— Martin van Creveld, Command in War
There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend
—  march swiftly to places where you are not expected.
The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
We propose to consider first the single elements of our subject, then each branch of part, and, last of all, the whole in all its relations-therefore to advance from the simple to the complex. But it is necessary for us to commence with a glance at the nature of the whole, because it is particularly necessary that in the consideration of any of the parts their relation to the whole be kept constantly in view.We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of War used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale. If we would conceive as a unit the countless number of duels which make up a War, we shall do so best by supposing to ourselves two wrestlers. Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavors to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance.War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
— Carl von Clausewitz, On War
If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
— Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
— Erwin Rommel, The Rommel Papers
You can always try another approach
—  even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Nuclear deterrence will remain a vital aspect of security. or Nuclear deterrence will have a smaller role in future security.Sources are split in their assessment of the importance of nuclear weapons and the validity of traditional nuclear deterrence in the 2001 - 2015 period. On the one hand are those who see nuclear weapons as decreasingly effective tools in deterring war. On the other are those experts who concede that nuclear weapons may have a different role than at the height of the Cold War, but who argue that they remain the ultimate deterrent, with considerable effect on the actions of even rogue states.Many experts who state a moral opposition to nuclear weapons have translated this into forecasts of a globalized world in which nuclear deterrence no longer makes sense. With greater economic interdependence, this argument runs, even the so-called "rogue states" will be reconciled to the international order, renouncing or reducing their overt or covert nuclear arsenals.
— Sam J. Tangredi, Futures of War
If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.
— Sun Tzu
The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently culminating in war. The profound influence of sea commerce upon the wealth and strength of countries was clearly seen long before the true principles which governed its growth and prosperity were detected. To secure to one's own people a disproportionate share of such benefits, every effort was made to exclude others, either by the peaceful legislative methods of monopoly or prohibitory regulations, or, when these failed, by direct violence. The clash of interests, the angry feelings roused by conflicting attempts thus to appropriate the larger share, if not the whole, of the advantages of commerce, and of distant unsettled commercial regions, led to wars. On the other hand, wars arising from other causes have been greatly modified in their conduct and issue by the control of the sea. Therefore the history of sea power, while embracing in its broad sweep all that tends to make a people great upon the sea or by the sea, is largely a military history...
— Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence Of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 - 1783
The requirement for the United States to craft a national security strategy (NSS) document was first codified in the National Security Act of 1947, and amended by the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. The 1986 amendment requires the President to submit the document on an annual basis to Congress to provide a comprehensive report on U.S. national security strategy. Both pieces of legislation mandate that the strategy include a "comprehensive description and discussion of worldwide interests, goals, and objectives...that are vital to the national security of the United States." It would also address foreign policy, world wide military commitments, U.S. national defense capabilities, short- and long-term uses of the elements of national power, and the requirement to have the strategy transmitted to Congress in both classified and unclassified form. A number of national security strategies were developed over time prior to the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, to include what many believe was the most significant grand strategy of the era, NSC-68, the key containment strategy against Soviet and Chinese communism. All were crafted during the pre-Goldwater-Nichals Act period at the classified level.
— Alan Stolberg
If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
— G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.
— Robert Watson, Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army
Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.
— Robert Watson, Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army
5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.Excerpt From: Sunzi. “The Art of War.” iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.
— James A. Owen, The First Dragon
The hound and hare were both so wearied that the peasant got them all.
— Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes
The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don't want to pay the price. Economically, Americans want the growth potential of open markets but not the pains. Politically, they want to have an enormous influence, but not the resentment of the world. Military, they want to be protected from dangers but not to bear the burdens of long-term strategy.
— George Friedman, The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like
Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess
— Samer Chidiac
Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.
— Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes
That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.
— Sam Tanenhaus
A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.
— Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow
Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities. And it must be understood that a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot observe all those things which are considered good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against faith, against charity, against humanity, and against religion. And, therefore, he must have a mind disposed to adapt itself according to the wind, and as the variations of fortune dictate, and, as I said before, not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
In carrying out a peacekeeping mission where the grand strategy is to maintain peace and order by persuading armed parties or other hostile elements to back away from aggressive activities, military strength is not a definite measure of success; neither could material contribution alone guarantees the "winning of the hearts and minds" of the people. What appears to be important is the day-to-day conduct of the peacekeepers on the ground; those who uphold the principles of neutrality and impartiality, as well as those who are able to carry all aspects of its operational duties exceptionally.
— Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jaden’s first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a new set of mind games. He waited for the old man to speak first and introduce himself, as Dalton had upon their first formal meeting. The stranger remained silent.
— Courtney Kirchoff, Jaden Baker
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
— Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
— Max McKeown, Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
— Peter F. Drucker
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.
— Lionel Suggs
Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to control the game, then you become one of the pieces that are meant to be sacrificed.
— Lionel Suggs
Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.
— R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.
— Lionel Suggs
Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.
— Lionel Suggs
For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a strategem.
— Edward Young, Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young
Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae
Cole envisioned the next few weeks passing as a sort of painless montage: there'd be music, and different moments of the townspeople hard at work building a defensive wall around the perimeter of the town, and digging holes to serve as traps, and training with the few weapons they had. There'd be a wiping of perspiration and drinks raised to one another and the exchange of friendly smiles between comrades, and perhaps deeper, more meaningful glances between him and MaryAnn.But by midmorning of the first day, Cole had come to the unavoidable conclusion that the remainder of the experience would in fact drag on in exceedingly real time, with lots of heaving and hoing and digging and hauling under the hot sun, full of the kind of intense straining that raised the danger of a really spectacular hernia. And, judging from the few tense conversations he'd had so far, he foresaw a series of increasingly strident arguments with Nora regarding matters strategic. Plus, of course, at the end of all this effort they'd all probably be dead.
— Michael Rubens, The Sheriff of Yrnameer
The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.
— Leon Wieseltier
If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. However, if you can only manipulate probability, you can only create a path to victory. But remember, plans can break down. The future is always a step ahead of you. The key is being able to manipulate probability and plan for uncertainty. This way, you don't have to create a path to victory, but manipulate all options so that all paths lead to a victory.
— Lionel Suggs
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life. 
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
— Idries Shah
The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
— Idries Shah
Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.
— Bedil, Bedil: Selected Poems
Although hundreds of friends Have become my foes, The friendship of One Has given security to my soul. Rejecting many I have embraced the One-At last I am He and He is me.
— Sarmad Shaheed, The Rubaiyat  of Sarmad