"Mean People Fail", November 2014
“The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.”
Depa Billipa and Mace Windu, p. 313
Shatterpoint (2004)
“When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”
As quoted by Robert C. Martin in Software Development magazine (September 2005), p. 60
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
This is cited to to Rommel's Infanterie Greift An [Infantry Attacks] (1937) in World War II : The Definitive Visual History (2009) by Richard Holmes, p. 128, and Timelines of History (2011) by DK Publishing, p. 392, but to George S. Patton, in Patton's Principles : A Handbook for Managers Who Mean It! (1982) by Porter B. Williamson as well as Leadership (1990) by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 47
Disputed
Source: Rommel: In His Own Words
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
This is cited to Patton in Patton's Principles : A Handbook for Managers Who Mean It! (1982) by Porter B. Williamson as well as Leadership (1990) by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 47, but is also cited to Erwin Rommel from his Infanterie Greift An [Infantry Attacks] (1937) in World War II : The Definitive Visual History (2009) by Richard Holmes, p. 128, and Timelines of History (2011) by DK Publishing, p. 392
Disputed
1983 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention speech, June 10, 1983.
“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”
Source: The Glass Castle
As quoted in The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1991) by William A. DeGregorio, p. 290
Remarks to journalists in Downing Street (21 November 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108252, following the inconclusive first ballot in the Conservative leadership election.
Third term as Prime Minister
