The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.

It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

A leader leads by example not by force.

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!

I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

To be the best you must beat the best.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.