Quotes about Strategic

Thomas Friedman

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

Characterizing Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State (Democrat):

Richard Nixon

I told Congressional leaders during the 1973 Yan Kipper War no American president will let Israel go down the tubes - democrat or republican - it's not an issue […] because the United States is concerned by more than strategic values. That's maybe a weakness, but it's the way we are and there are moral issues involved here. We don't have an alliance with Israel, as you know, they're not an ally of the United States in a technical sense, but we have a bond to Israel that's much stronger - it's a moral commitment. A moral commitment because of what happened during the Holocaust, and a moral commitment because it is a democracy, the only democracy in that area, and under the circumstances that is why American presidents and the American people in the future will support all out the survival of Israel if it's attacked.

Nixon is responding to Ted Koppel’s observation that Nixon wrote in his book that Israel is of no strategic value to the US and yet it continues to support Israel.

Jack Welch

Change before you have to.

Joe Abercrombie

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

Ben Horowitz

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

London Breed

I'm a fact-based leader.

Jonathan Haidt

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Peter Senge

Leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,’ people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

Kevin de Leon

You've got to lead from a position of strength.

Trevor Jackson

Kevin Gates is probably the smartest person I've ever worked with. He's cool, he's crazy, but he's genius.

Leon Trotsky

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

Kevin J. Anderson

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Aesop

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Warren Bennis

Successful leaders are great askers

Letitia Baldrige

It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.

Bill Hybels

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

Will Durant

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Roy Nelson

I think Fedor is one of those guys who capitalizes on a lot of people's mistakes, and nobody capitalizes on his mistakes.

Jenna Fischer

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

Eric Reid

I think I'm a very cerebral player.

Betsy Hodges

Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.

Paul Heyman

Brock Lesnar is an extraordinary, underrated forward thinker. Every day of Brock's life, he is smarter than he was the day before.

Strategic Quotes