Our favorite holding period is forever.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I’m bad at picking heroes.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

My business is to prevent the future.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

When we have the ball, the other team has to run. The most important thing is for the players to be prepared to be a little bit wild.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.