Passive Strategy Quotes

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.

Don’t get in the way when your opponents are destroying themselves.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time -- or never.

Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

Now I've probably got to be more aggressive and pick up where [Marbury] left off, but I'm just going to take it how it comes. I'm not going to force it. I'm going to let the game come to me.

I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.