Unorthodox Strategies Quotes

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

Law of Diminishing Returns: As the popularity of a candidate approaches zero, the probability that he or she will release a wildly bizarre video approaches 1.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

I honestly think that Donald Trump's only adviser is his doorman.

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

I have a very strange way of playing football.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

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.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

The CIA and Bill Casey were about as independent and a hog on ice and could be as confident as they were wrong.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.

It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.

President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?

I love when I think we're taking territory - if it makes sense in the long term, we just don't give a damn what it looks like in the short term. After all, we're running a cult, not a normal company.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.