#strategy

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#between #competitors #consequent #derives #difference

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f ↗

— Gary Hamel

#paradox #strategy #business

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#boxing #chess #create #each #just

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#anything #arm #baseball #got #great

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#attacks #base #continually #enemy #flight

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

#lesser #men #over #spirit #strategy

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities. And it must be understood that a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot observe all those things which are considered good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against faith, against charity, against humanity, and against religion. And, therefore, he must have a mind disposed to adapt itself according to the wind, and as the variations of fortune dictate, and, as I said before, not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#strategy #change

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms. ↗

— Carl von Clausewitz

#philosophy #strategy #experience

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy. ↗

— Reggie Joiner

#family

Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to control the game, then you become one of the pieces that are meant to be sacrificed. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#life-lessons #philosophy #strategy #tactics #life