- If you know the enemy and know
yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know
yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a
defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every
battle
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
- Invincibility
lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack
- Hence
that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend;
and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack
- To secure ourselves against defeat
lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided
by the enemy himself.
- All men can see these tactics
whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory
is evolved.
- What the
ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in
winning with ease
- If quick, I survive. If not quick, I
am lost. This is "death
- Strategy
without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is
the noise before defeat
- He who knows when he can fight and
when he cannot, will be victorious
- In war, then, let your great object
be victory, not lengthy campaigns
- Supreme excellence consists of
breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Appear weak when you are strong and
strong when you are weak
- You have to believe in yourself
- There are not more than five
musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies
than can ever be heard.
- There are not more than five
primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been
seen.
- There are not more than five
cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be
tasted
- The general who advances
without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought
is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel
of the kingdom
- The end and aim of spying in
all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only
be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is
essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality
- There are
roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns
which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of
the sovereign which must not be obeyed
Norman Ralph
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not
selling advice.
- Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
- Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Warren
Buffett
- Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
- It
takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think
about that, you'll do things differently.
- There
seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things
difficult.
- Price
is what you pay. Value is what you get.
- Chains
of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- I
don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can
step over.
- When
you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
- Risk
comes from not knowing what you're doing.
- I
always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a
minute.
- Should
you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing
vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
- There
is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side,
but the right side.
- It
isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right
time.
- A
loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong -
not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
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