Thursday, August 27

Strategery

President Bush called strategy strategery, but we know what he meant. He called the War on Terrorism the War on Totoism.

Warren Buffett said his strategy was to answer the telephone.

The best deals are the ones we don't plan.

Pyle's strategy was to check his email.

It was working. It would work. Or it wouldn't.

Most of his email showed that the person emailing him hadn't understood Pyle's query. They were too dense, set in their ways, or busy making money to read their mail, think about what it said, and respond to it intelligently.

It was like talking to someone who didn't stop talking to listen. You had to get their attention.

A mule, you hit him upside the head with a board.

In i: six nonlectures, e. e. cummings wrote, "Would you hit a woman with a baby, no, I'd hit her with a brick."


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