“So divine an illumination is always linked to youth and productivity; and in very truth, Napoleon was one of the most productive men that ever lived.”— Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.com
“Everything is simple and definite; there is no much fixity of purpose that everyone wishes to comply. You are vassals, but free. I am your master but I will protect you. Five hundred pieces of ordinance and the friendship of France. Such is my will. Then it is all over.”— Napoleon, amazon.com
“When working on any project, work with the best people in the business, the best people in the world—expertise in every field of endeavors, the best chemistry, the best unity—and work in secrecy. And when it's least expected, hit everyone between the eyes with the phenomenal, the most power, unexpec…”— Zack O'Malley Greenburg, amazon.com
“They just put you up against yourself. If they give you an opponent, you can analyze and figure out their weaknesses and beat them. But if it's yourself, how do you win? How do you top that?”— 50 Cent, amazon.com
“In combat you have to be out front leading them, not directing them from the rear. The men say 'If the officer is going to stay back 100 yards, then I'm going to stay back with him.' You can direct them, you have to lead them.”— WWII Soldier, amazon.com
“Power comes not from power everywhere but from knowing where to put it on.”— Norman Maclean, amazon.com
“Quocunque jeceris stabit. (Wheresoever you cast it, it will find its feet.)”— Count Belisarius, amazon.com
“Comrades, in remembering the glorious battles of long ago do not forget how they were won. They were won not only by courage and skill with arms but by prudence.”— Count Belisarius, amazon.com
“The difference between a novice and an expert is their ability to understand the supply line. Like the delayed effects of alcohol or a surgeon knowing that the repercussions of one actions didn't show until further down the road. In studies, the novice overreacts...because they can't see down the li…”— Charles M. Abernathy MD, amazon.com
“The first step to planning is to ask of any activity, any product, any process or market. If we were not committed to it today, would we go into it? If the answer is no, one says 'How can we get out—fast?'”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.”— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“To win a tactical battle may not settle a campaign but to fail in it accomplishes nothing for sure.”— Erwin Rommel, amazon.com
“Delivering sharp, sudden blows against business, then following with conciliatory speeches.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“[In the 1990 World Chess Championship] Kasparov lost the Queen right at the start of the game. So he could play fast and free and fight his way out of the death ground. It's called the Queen's Gambit.”— Robert M. Sapolsky, amazon.com