“The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“Follow your passion, give your goals your best shot and care about people you love.”

“Make sure your goals are your goals.”

“Honesty is the best policy; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis — in the city …”

“12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.”

“Students of the Ichi school Way of strategy should train from the start with the sword and long sword in either hand. This is the truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn.”

“There are three measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.”

“Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.”

“To give is best, live responsibly or die.”