Strategic Advancement Quotes

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

To secure the ground we gain, and gain what more we can, is, I think, the wisest course

We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

To stand still is to fall behind.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.