Strategy quotes

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◆ Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde100

◆ Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

- Colin Powell99

◆ Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

- Criss Jami99

◆ To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

- Sun Tzu99

◆ When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ who wishes to fight must first count the cost

- Sun Tzu99

◆ Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

- Sun Tzu99

◆ The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

- Michael E. Porter99

◆ Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

- Niccolò Machiavelli99

◆ You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

- Alvin Toffler99

◆ The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.

- Miyamoto Musashi99