#strategy

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If you do not take opportunity   to   advance and reward   the   deserving,   your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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This is stupid." "Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. The pettiness, the silliness. You think in war it must be different. Must be better. With death around the corner, men united against hardship, the cunning of the enemy, people must think harder, faster, be...better. Be heroic. Only it's just the same. In fact do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it's worse. There aren't many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they'll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work. There's no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

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