“The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.”
Source: The Art of War, Chapter I · Detail Assessment and Planning
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Sun Tzu68
ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosophe… -543–-495 BCRelated quotes
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950) senior officer of the British Army
I – The Good General.
"Generals and Generalship" (1939)
“Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
As quoted in The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1991) by William A. DeGregorio, p. 290
“The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.”
Robert Ferrigno (1947) American writer
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought”
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) American actress, model
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist
Free the Airwaves! (2002)
Context: The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. Democracy is in danger. Seats in Congress, seats in the state legislature, that big seat in the White House itself, can be purchased by those who have the greatest campaign resources, who have the largest bank accounts or own riches.
That, I submit to you, is no democracy. It is an oligarchy of the already powerful. It is no less than a conspiracy of the powerful to deny access to government to those who literally cannot afford to run for public office with any realistic hope of getting elected.
“A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
