"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."
- Patricia McCormick
"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut t..."
- Miyamoto Musashi
"Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan."
- Jonathan Stroud
"Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly."
- 37 Signals
"Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degre..."
- Carl von Clausewitz
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
- Baltasar Gracián
"It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to go..."
- Niccolò Machiavelli
"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore."
- Benjamin Franklin
"It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs."
- Jefferson Smith
"We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a so..."
- Sonia Marciano