"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"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"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War, Special Edition)

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

"No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil."
— Tsugumi Ohba

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Study the past if you would define the future."
— Confucius

""Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous."
— Richard Nixon

"Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror."
— Colin Powell

"Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier."
— Colin Powell

"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 Musashi (The Book of Five Rings)

"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms."
— Carl Von Clausewitz

"We have to build the framework in which we will execute the tasks."
— LTG Christianson

"**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**
That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision.

[first-line bold by author]
[2002] p.23"
— Gary Hamel (Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life)

""... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

[2002] p.46"
— Gary Hamel (Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life)

"That's when I realized that as long as you don't broadcast your beefs, you can get away cold with murder. It's even better if you don't allow the beef to take place. If someone disrespects you, you can know in your heard that you're going to get him, but you don't have to show him there's a beef. You can just look at it like, Okay, this nigga must not know. And then you fall back and you put it down."
— 50 Cent (From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens)

""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 Tzu

"The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses."
— John Christopher (When the Tripods Came)

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. "
— Michael Porter

"Organize, don't agonize."
— Nancy Pelosi

"The only thing really worth a damn is 'hustle.'"
— Jon Corzine

"... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

Leading the Revolution, 2002, p.46"
— Gary Hamel

"Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**

(emphasis by author)
[2002] p.25f"
— Gary Hamel (Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life)

"Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly."
— 37Signals (Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application)

"If you don't know the conceptual underpinnings, anything is good."
— LTG Christianson