strategic awareness Quotes

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment... and we have to manage the game; that's the art of a great team.

I've got to know my strength and weaknesses and the same for my competitors.

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

A Warrior does not go into battle without knowing the limitations of his ally.

He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution all become more critical. Sometimes you get away with doing things not quite right against lesser competition, but when you play against real good people that's when it shows up.

He however knows when the enemy is stronger.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

You can't teach court savvy

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

If somebody says they don't watch the leaderboard, I don't buy that, I'm sorry. Because you've got to know where you are to know how to play.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.