“Few things offer a greater return on less investment than praise—offering credit...to someone who has stepped up and done the job.”— Bill Walsh, amazon.com
“In simplest terms, straddling means keeping your existing strategy intact while simultaneously also try to adopt the strategy of a competitor.”— Greg McKeown, amazon.com
“My punishment would be followed by oblivion, whereas, if you save my life, I shall be an everlasting, memorial of your clemency.”— Caractus, amazon.com
“When a fish meets the fishhook If he is to greedy, he will be caught When his mouth opens His life is already lost.”— Zen Proverb, sacred-texts.com
“So convenient a thing it is to be a rational creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”— Benjamin Franklin, amazon.com
“Sometimes waiting is a strategy. But more often than not, it's what you do when you don't know what to do next.”— Dennis McFarland, amazon.com
“Black Hawks joke about how American and British troops don't sneak up on each other to kill, but fight in the open and then retire to declare in writing that each side won.”— Donald Jackson, amazon.com
“I would define a specialist as a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of facts.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”— Chuck "C", amazon.com
“Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be invisible to flattery upon her person.”— Earl of Chesterfield, amazon.com
“One thing must take place exactly as in the plans: the principle upon which these plans were made. Every man will attack.”— Talik, amazon.com
“A commander may keep complicated schemes of battle in his head and among his staff, but when the orders reach the operational units, they must be so simple that a child can understand them. 'Go here, do this.' Nothing more complex.”— Ugda Sharon, amazon.com
“A fighter pilot accelerating down the runway on an operational mission must keep foremost in his mind one reality: At some point before his wheels touch down again, something is certain to go wrong. Will he have engine failure? Will an unseen enemy appear? Will another plane in his formation experie…”— Major Ran Ronen, amazon.com
“Tyranny is a splendid roost but there is no way to step down from it.”— C. Alexander London, amazon.com
“People think oil is near the surface—that's the whole point. You have to drill deep.”— Bryan Burrough, amazon.com
“The way to treat an adversary like [Theodore Roosevelt] is to gaze at the stars over his head.”— Woodrow Wilson, amazon.com