Strategy Without Tactics Quotes

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

Sun Tzu

#2. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear 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

#3. Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.

Sun Tzu

#4. You're a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

Shaun Hick

#5. Tactics wins battles. Strategy wins wars.

Pierce Brown

#6. Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.

Mary Stewart

#7. 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

#8. Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

Michael Chabon

#9. In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

Tyler Cowen

#10. 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

#11. As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

Pete Hegseth

#12. Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.

Hans Jonas

#13. For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.

Bill Walsh

#14. If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

Lionel Suggs

#15. The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

Woody Hayes

#16. It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Terry Pratchett

#17. No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

A.J. Darkholme

#18. It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

Erwin Rommel

#19. The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

Robert McFarlane

#20. 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

#21. The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.

William Kraut

#22. Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.

Randy Alcorn

#23. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

Sherwood Smith

#24. The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Sun Tzu

#26. If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.

Sun Tzu

#27. Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. The art of war is the art of deception.

Sun Tzu

#29. Tactics win battles. Strategy wins wars," I say.
"Oooo. I am Reaper. God of wolves. King of strategy." Mustang pinches my cheek. "You are just too adorable.

Pierce Brown

#30. Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?

Tom Holt

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

George S. Patton

#33. Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way ... Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

James Hillman

#34. The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

John Podhoretz

#35. One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

Paul Begala

#36. When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece ... in order to win.

Lionel Suggs