Unsound Strategies Quotes

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Most of our [economic] problems are of our own making.

I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

There are a lot of silly projects out there.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.