“Hope is not a strategy.”

“A learning strategy is comparable in kind with a performance strategy. Each sort of strategy entails decomposing goals into subgoals and applying mental subroutines to achieve the subgoals concerned. The necessary difference between learning strategies and performance is in the domain upon which they operate. Whereas the performance strategy solves problems posed by states of the (usually symbolic) environment, the learning strategy solves the problems posed by deficiencies in the current repertoire of relevant performance strategies; the solutions produced by a learning strategy are performance strategies.”

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

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

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

“You need a strategy, and a trade or investment decision can be evaluated only in the context of that strategy.”

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

“If the discount parameter, w, is sufficiently high, there is no best strategy independent of the strategy used by the other player.”

“Focusing on a short-term strategy makes you invisible. Focusing on a long-term strategy is a winning formula.”

“The advance of freedom is the surest strategy to undermine the appeal of terror in the world. Where freedom takes hold, hatred gives way to hope. When freedom takes hold, men and women turn to the peaceful pursuit of a better life.”