Tactics Quotes

• Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Investing

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• Tactics is the art of using troops in battle;
  strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, Winning

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Fighting

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• Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

  Max Euwe

  Thinking, Playing Chess, Requirements

  "Sales - What A Concept!: A Guidebook for Sales Process Performance Improvement" by Henry C. (Sandy) Waters III, p. 11, 2011.

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• Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.

  James Mattis

  Military, Army, Hunting

  "Eve of Battle Speech". The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003.

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• Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Power, Thinking, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Winning, Opponents

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• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

  Gerald Abrahams

  Chess Game, Chess, Knows

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• When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world.

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Organization, Ideas, World

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• Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

  Frank Muir

  Wine, Bottles, Dinner

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• All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Believe

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Chess, Instinct

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• Tactics flow from a superior position

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Flow, Position

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• All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Illustrated Art of War”, p.144, Courier Corporation

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• The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

  Herb Elliott

  Running, Admire, Runners

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• A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

  Saul Alinsky

  People, Enjoy, Rules For Radicals

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Winning, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

  Adolph Malan

  Decision, Aviation, Combat

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• Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Brain, Chess, Strategy

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Rehabilitation, Addresses

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• The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

  Hamza Yusuf

  People, Want, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

  Saul Alinsky

  Events, Different, Purpose

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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• One of the primary tactics for enduring winning is daily learning.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Winning, Endure

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