A Quote by George S. Patton

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

George S. Patton

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George S. Patton
American - Military man
November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu

The Pentagon is constantly adjusting tactics because they have the flexibility from the White House to do so. The strategy is to help the Iraqi people achieve their objectives and their dreams, which is a democratic society. That's the strategy. The tactics it's important that we stay there and get it done; or we leave. We're not leaving so long as I'm the president. That would be a huge mistake.

George W. Bush

A good strategy is not always successful, but even an "inappropriate" strategy may be an actual strategy. A "bad strategy" is one that doesn't even try to address an important challenge. Instead, it speaks of aspirations, visions of the future, lays out performance goals, or simply lists a bunch of unconnected actions.

Richard P. Rumelt

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.

Antoine-Henri Jomini

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

Alicia Garza

In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.

Terence MacSwiney

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

Park Ji-sung

The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.

Woody Hayes

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Carlos Ghosn

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Max Euwe

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

Max Euwe

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

George Friedman

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

Bill Gates

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

Pete Hegseth

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

P. J. O'Rourke

Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

Rory Carroll

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