Quotes About Foresight

No-one wants acorns, but everyone wants oaks.

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don't want to end up like me.

Waste today, want tomorrow.

We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.