1,050 Quotes About Strategy

You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

The world does not work for hypocrisy. It works for humanity.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

If your ideology cannot withstand the harsh sunlight of reality, then you may very well be playing around with ideas, but it's doubtful you have an ideal.

... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46