Quotes About Tactics & Strategy

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Strategy is practical knowledge of the highest form.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

To become a true strategist you must take 3 steps. First become aware of the weakness and illness that can take hold of the mind warping it's strategic powers. Second declare a kind of war on yourself to make yourself move forward.Third wage a ruthless and continual battle on the enemies within you by applying certain strategies.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

It is not always necessary to confine ourselves to the same tactics.But on the contrary, if we are adaptable to circumstances we can better escape danger.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

This is the game you must play. Do whatever you can to preserve unity of command. Keep the strings to be pulled in your hands the over arching strategic vision must come from you and you alone. At the same time hide your tracks. Work behind the scenes, make the group feel involved in your decisions. Seek their advice, incorporating their good ideas, politely deflecting their bad ones. If necessary make minor cosmetic strategy changes to assuage the insecure political animals in the group but ultimately trust your own vision. Remember the dangers of group decisions making. The first rule of effective leadership is never relinquish your unity of command.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

The essence of strategy is not to carry out a brilliant plan that proceeds in steps, it is to put yourself in situations where you have more options than the enemy does.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Instead of grasping at option A as the single right answer true strategy is positioning yourself to do A,B or C depending on the circumstances. That is strategic depth of thinking as opposed to formulaic thinking.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

In the utilisation of a theater of war, as in everything else, strategy calls for the economy of strength. The less one can manage with, the better.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

The soundest strategy in war is to post pone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of thw mortal blow both possible and easy.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

In moments of danger refusing to fight is often the best strategy.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

To workout a grand strategy against an enemy you have to know what motivates him or what is his source of power.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

A part of grand strategy related to serving the roots is seeing dangers as they start to sprout, then cutting them down before they get too big to handle.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Every individual is like an alien culture. You must get inside his or her way of thinking not as an exercise in sensitivity but out of strategic necessity.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

The greatest power you could have in life would come neither from limitless resources nor even consummate skill in strategy. It would come from clear knowledge of those around you.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Blitzkrieg warfare, adapted for daily combat is the perfect strategy for these times.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Far greater defences against the forces of division are knowledge and strategic thinking. No army or group can be divided if it is aware of the enemy's intentions and makes an intelligent response. As Samuel Adams discovered, strategy is your only dependable sword and shield.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

There are many ways to envelop your opponents but perhaps the simplest is to put whatever strength or advantage you naturally have to maximum use in a strategy enclosure.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Earning people's trust and confidence is not a moral thing but a strategic one.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

There is in fact nothing harder in the realm of strategy than keeping our head on straight all the way to the end and past the end yet nothing is more necessary.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Brilliant plans and piled up conquests are not enough. You can become the victim of your own success, letting victory seduce you into going too far, creating hard bitten enemies, winning the battle bur losing the political game after it. What you need is a strategic third eye: the ability to stay focused on the future while operating in the present and ending your actions in a way that will serve your interests for the next round of war. This third eye will help you counteract the emotions that can insidiously infect your clever strategies, particularly anger and the desire for revenge.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Planting the seeds of future victory in present defeat is strategic brilliance of the highest order.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

It is not easy to make one's way in this world, to strive with energy to get what you want without incurring the envy or antipathy of others who may see you as aggressive and ambitious, someone to thwart. The answer is not to lower your ambitions but rather to disguise them. A piecemeal approach to conquest of anything is perfect for these political times, the ultimate mask of aggression. The key to making it work is to have a clear sense of your objective, the empire that you will first gobble up. Each bite must have a logic in an overall strategy but must be small enough that no one senses your larger intentions. If your bites are too big, you will take on more than you are ready for and find yourself overwhelmed by problems; if you bite too fast, other people will see what you are upto. Let the passage of time masterfully disguise your intentions and give you the appearance of someone of modest ambition. By the time your rivals wake up to what you have consumed, they risk being consumed themselves if they stand in your way.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

If you want to communicate an important idea, you must not preach; instead make your readers or listners connect the dots and come to a conclusion on their own. In putting this strategy into practice, avoid the common mistake of straining to get people’s attention by using a form that is shocking or strange. The attention you get this way will be superficial and short lived. By using a form that alienates a wide public, you narrow your audience, you will end up preaching to the converted. As the case of Machiavelli demonstrates, using conventional form is more effective in the long run, because it attracts a larger audience. Once you have that audience, you can insinuate your real(and even shocking) content through details and subtext .

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

Failure to communicate is the fault not of dull witted audience but of the unstrategic communicator.

33 Strategies Of War

Robert Greene

Leadership

It is hard to make your way in the world alone. Alliances can help but if you are starting out, it is hard to get the right people interested in an alliance with you there is nothing in it for them. The wisest strategy is often to join the group that can best serve your long term interests or the one with which you have the most affinity. Instead of trying to conquer this group from the outside, you burrow your way into it. As an insider you can gather valuable information about how it functions and particularly about its members hypocrisies and weaknesses. Knowledge you can use to wage insidious intra-organisational warfare. From the inside you can divide and conquer. Remember: your advantage here is that unlike the other members, you have no sentimental attachment to the group; your only allegiance is to yourself. That gives you the freedom you need to make the manipulative and destructive maneuvers that will propel you to the fore at the others expense.

Mastery

Robert Greene

Success

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life. This strategy applies as well to any setbacks and difficulties we may experience. In such moments, it is generally wise to stick to the few things we know and do well, and to reestablish our confidence.

Mastery

Robert Greene

Success

So much of boxing is mental. A fighter who enters the ring with a clear sense of purpose and strategy, and with the confidence that comes from complete preparation, has a much better chance of prevailing.

How To Lead The Family Business

Leadership

Sometimes, when your emotions are running high, letting a day pass before you act can be the best possible strategy.

The Millionaire Fastlane

MJ DeMarco

Money

Speed is not thinking about a Fastlane business, but creating it. Speed is uncovering a need and formulating a solution and a prototype. Speed is filing paperwork for your business entity. Speed is building and growing a business. Speed is making contacts and forcing your process out into the world. Speed is approaching your business like a strategic game of chess while your opponents play checkers. Speed is turning off the Playstation.

The Millionaire Fastlane

MJ DeMarco

Money

If your product doesn’t stand out in the crowd, it doesn’t stand a chance and you’re forced into the strategy of “cutting prices to stand out from the crowd.

Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

Psychology

The Law of Covetousness. Absence and presence have very primal effects upon us. Too much presence suffocates; a degree of absence spurs our interest. We are marked by the continual desire to possess what we do not have— the object projected by our fantasies. Learn to create some mystery around you, to use strategic absence to make people desire your return, to want to possess you. Dangle in front of others what they are missing most in life, what they are forbidden to have, and they will go crazy with desire. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Overcome this weakness in yourself by embracing your circumstances, your fate.

Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

Psychology

You want your depth of thinking, to go to several degrees in imagining the permutations, as far as your mind can go.While this mode of thinking is important for individuals, it can be even more crucial for large organizations, where there is a lot at stake for many people. In any group or team, put at least one person in charge of gaming out all of the possible consequences of a strategy or line of action, preferably someone with a skeptical and prudent frame of mind. You can never go too far in this process, and the time and money spent will be well rewarded as you avoid potential catastrophes and develop more solid plans.

Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

Psychology

In life as in warfare, strategists will always prevail over tacticians.

Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

Psychology

The key to successful flattery is to make it strategic. If I know that I am particularly awful at basketball, praising me for my basketball skills in any way will ring false. But if I am uncertain about my skills, if I imagine I am perhaps not really so bad, then any flattery on that score can work wonders. Look for those qualities people are uncertain about and offer reassurance.