Quotes About Leadership

A previous information allows wise rulers and valuable generals to move and conquer.

25. Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. 26. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

When the men are united, the brave will not advance alone, nor will the cowardly retreat.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. And therefore the general who understands war is the Minister of the people's fate and arbiter of the nation's destiny.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Sun Tzu dijo: En el arte práctico de la guerra, es mejor conservar el país enemigo entero e intacto, que destruirlo y arrasarlo.

the general for his temporary use, or as we should say, in his tent. See. ss. 26.] 1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. 2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. 3. The art of

combatir y vencer en la batalla no es la excelencia suprema, sino que esta reside en romper la resistencia del enemigo sin luchar.

Lo que es, pues, esencial en la guerra es el triunfo, no las campañas prolongadas. Por este motivo el general que comprende la guerra es el ministro de la fortuna del pueblo y el árbitro de la nación.

Cambia sus colores (de los soldados enemigos hechos prisioneros), utilízalos mezclados con los tuyos. Trata bien a los soldados y préstales atención. Los soldados prisioneros deben ser bien tratados, para conseguir que en el futuro luchen para ti. A esto se llama vencer al adversario e incrementar por añadidura tus propias fuerzas.

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. He controls his soldiers by his authority, knits them together by good faith, and by rewards makes them serviceable. If faith decays, there will be disruption; if rewards are deficient, commands will not be respected.

When the men are united, the brave cannot advance alone, the cowardly cannot retreat alone.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

So much for operations in salt-marches.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, victor of El Alamein and commander of land forces on D-Day, wrote extensively on The Art of War in his monumental A History of Warfare.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

Those who do not know the conditions of mountains and forests, hazardous defiles, marshes and swamps, cannot conduct the march of an army. Those who do not use local guides are unable to obtain the advantages of the ground.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

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Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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