Unorthodox Tactics Quotes

If he [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

… half-baked, glib, little briefless jackleg lawyer … begging for the Presidency, as a tramp might beg for a pie.

Chaos is good for CNN.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

We are a little out of the box.

President Trump has a unique way of doing things different to his predecessors, but what I would say is that don't underestimate his ability to take very intractable situations and shake the deck of cards and try and find a solution.

I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

There is only one Donald Trump, but people make comparisons because I'm blunt.

In all my years of public service, I’ve seen weird issues, but this is the weirdest. My own guys are not even with me on this.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

I've done things my own way every since I've entered public office.

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

In any other sport an easier route to the final is your best route - but in this sport it isn't.

When people voted for Donald Trump, they knew he wasn't an angel.

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

The way I play is not like most people. The moves are more computeresque. They're not the moves that most humans are going to play.

Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else probably won't work for you.