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Source: The Art of War

“I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.”

World Heart War Brain Military Battle Strategy War Of The Worlds Offensive Defence World War 2 Pacific Naval Heart And Brain

Author:Holland Smith

“So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge.”

Needs Done Young President Challenges Judging Strategy Aggressive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.”

Mean Matter Choices Clear Cutting Resources No Matter What Strategy Size Noise Pockets Great Business Allocation

Author:Jack Welch

“With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.”

People World Needs Today Ability Levels Principles Asking Strategy Arguing Uncertainty Hinder Great Business

Author:Orit Gadiesh

“Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.”

Knows Strategy Great Business

Author:Alan G. Lafley

“Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.”

Thinking Art Matter Today Winning Process Answers Design Asking Strategy Questioning Asking Questions Great Business Reinventing Thinking Process

Author:Constantinos C. Markides

“It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.”

“The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.”

People Mind May Care Action Speak Can Do Leadership Simple Powerful Talking Serious Models Strategy Commit Mastery Quests Hospitality Personal Mastery

Author:Peter Senge

“I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.”

Thinking Past Games Justice Ready Strategy Owners Racing Computing Shooter

Author:Sid Meier

“Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.”

Enemy Military Strategy Conquer Dictator Enemy Within

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.”

People Nature Land Benefits Evidence Strategy Environmental Contact Conservation Public Health Land Conservation

Author:Richard Louv

“Peak oil: The over-populated UK's ability to feed and supply itself for our privileged lifestyle requires the land and resources of other nations. Against a background of depleting oil resources, this is a dangerous strategy”

Nations Ability Land Dangerous Resources Strategy Oil Lifestyle Backgrounds Privileged Peak Oil

Author:Phil Harding

“I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.”

Ifs Believe Order I Believe Failing Economics Strategy Structure

Author:Michael Dell

“Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.”

Should Environment Strategy Evolve Towers Mud Marketplace Ivory Ivory Tower

Book:Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition

Source: Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition

“Every move creates a weakness.”

Moving Weakness Strategy Chess

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.”

Doe Moving Succeed Strategy Chess Opponents Conventions Anticipate Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.”

Strategy Prepared Administration Reform Budgets Request Reducing Reformation Amtrak

Author:Christopher Bond

“It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.”

Should Art Process Strategy Reform Sequence Reformation

Author:Vaclav Klaus

“The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.”

Firsts Next Strategy Chess Blockades

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.”

Values Left Pieces Keys Concern Trade Strategy Chess Boards

Author:Dan Heisman

“When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.”

Difficult Clear Strategy Chess Boards Opponents

Author:David Bronstein

“It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.”

Pieces Dangerous Cost Strategy Chess

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.”

Ifs Stills Action Opportunity Left Strategy Chess Characteristics Charming Simplification

Author:Bent Larsen

“Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.”

Ifs Should Wells Important Facts Pieces Regard Strategy Chess Engaged

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?”

Ifs Should Done Speak Bits Enemy Land Position Battle Strategy Soldier Chess Should I Conquest Handful Terrain

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.”

Thinking May Problem Running Today Moving Form Asks Answers Moral Plans Tradition Strategy Chess Intense Preoccupation Moral Courage Make A Move Blockades

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“Attack! Always Attack!”

Strategy Chess

Author:Adolf Anderssen

“The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.”

Littles Would Be Differences Cases Degrees Strategy Chess Conception Excess Originality Criteria Infallible Strategist

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”

Masters Crosses Strategy Chess Beast Monk Prey Tournaments

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.”

Ifs Play Plans Worst Strategy Chess Wander Consistently Worst Things

Author:Alexander Kotov

“Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.”

Opportunity Pieces Victory Foundation Strategy Chess Chosen Centre Formation

Author:Alexander Kotov

“I often play a move I know how to refute.”

Knows Play Moving Know How Strategy Chess

Author:Bent Larsen

“I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.”

Ifs Should Looks Pieces Position Strategy Chess Arise Retreat

Author:Cecil Purdy

“When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.”

Sometimes Play Moving Walks Path Resources Strategy Chess Command Opponents Exploits Narrow Path

Author:David Bronstein

“You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.”

Firsts Able Moving Order Strategy Chess Handle Variety Finding Yourself

Author:Edmar Mednis

“Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!”

Ifs Play Strong Ready Strategy Chess Opponents Novelty Variation

Author:Edmar Mednis

“The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.”

May Mean Names Process Pieces Special Strategy Chess Remove Obstruction

Book:Common Sense in Chess

Source: Common Sense in Chess

“To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.”

Hard Sound Plans Strategy Chess Justification

Author:Emanuel Lasker

“If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.”

Ifs Men Turns Kings Remains Strategy Chess Queens Boards Delay Files Bishops Pawns

Book:The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy

Source: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy

“Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.”

Way Play Moving Winning Force Strategy Chess Simplest Alekhine

Book:The most instructive games of chess ever played

Source: The most instructive games of chess ever played

“The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!”

Art Matter Difficult Perfect Player Plans Art Is Strategy International Chess Nerves Mastery Timing Strain Arena Attacking Elude

Book:Saving lost positions

Source: Saving lost positions

“As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.”

Long Moving Realizing Danger Kings Strategy Chess Opponents Offensive Pretext

Author:Mikhail Tal

“When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.”

Trying Worry Position Strategy Chess Upset

Author:Pal Benko

“An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.”

Needs Wells Innovation Strategy Chess Ingenious

Author:Paul Keres

“In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.”

Should Book Play Games Masters Machines Strategy Chess Opening Magician

Author:Rudolf Spielmann

“A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.”

Made Whole Moving Games Plans Strategy Chess

Author:Reuben Fine

“The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.”

Firsts Essentials Strategy Chess

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.”

Trying Running Player Risk Position Losing Advantage Tasks Strategy Chess Permanent Temporary

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

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