Effective Strategy Quotes

It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do.

It's easy to defend a policy that works. It's not so easy to defend a policy that didn't work.

Regardless of moral considerations, assassination is a wrongheaded tool for a great power, because small powers can use it equally if not more effectively.

What works in the real world is cooperation.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Everyone says they support our troops and thank you for their service, if they really want to support their troops, demand better. Demand that their sacrifice not be wasted. That we not just muddle along as some of the generals have called for.

The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

You can’t blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

So if you want a really effective criminal justice strategy, you don't build bigger prisons, you invest money in young kids - and you accept that it's going to take years to work through, but it's a more effective strategy.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

You've got to be smart about tackling.

I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.

I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s your explanation…there!” I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But it’s a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didn’t sometimes work.

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.