Quotes About Strategy

Every choice had its risks, every choice its consequences. He would play the game to its conclusion.

Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

No b****** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b****** die for his country.

No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

That don't stop you from advocating it. This is politics, Big Boy.