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Strategy Quotes

"Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself."

"Fighting is vigorously proceeding, and we shall see who can stand the bucketing best — Briton or Boer"

"You either play the game or let the game play you."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

"Vision without execution is just hallucination."

"It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea."

"His hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see."

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do"

"If his forces are united, separate them."

"Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles"

"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war"

"The key to success is not in the will to win, but in the will to prepare to win."

"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."

"We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details."

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