Strategic Acumen Quotes

The most brilliant statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.