“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ”

“The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.”

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.”

“Strategy will compensate the talent.The talent will never compensate the strategy.”

“Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down.”