Never let a good crisis go to waste
We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.
We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
When you’re reactive [in foreign policy] you often arrive on the scene too late.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands
When I say that I don't know what my next thing is, I don't. I'm just gonna read scripts, and if I see something that jumps out at me, I'm just gonna call my agents and say, "Please get me in so I can audition for this." You gotta sing for your supper. It never stops.
I don't really think about it. I just try to find my opportunity and then attack.
There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
Defence is our best attack.
It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.
The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.
Better to leave before someone else has the idea of sending you away.
We need to coordinate closely with international partners, right down to tightly-coordinated execution of seizures, searches, and arrests, so that instead of capturing a single criminal, we're taking down an entire enterprise.
I am a big believer in early intervention.
We want to make the insurgents come to us. Make them be the aggressors. What I want to do is get on the inside looking out - instead of being on the outside looking in.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time
We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.
