19 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Strategy

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on strategy

13. Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

41. When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

42. You cannot treat with all the world at once.

56. Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

63. Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

77. Fanaticism must first be lulled, in order that it may be eradicated.

91. I accept I might be defeated, but caught in surprise, never.

93. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. (Idea originally conceptualized by Machiavelli in The Prince)

97. If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

106. If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.

108. If the whole world was a state, Istanbul would be the capital of it.

118. In warfare, the mental to the physical is as three is to one.

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

133. Now we are in a fix. Peace has been declared.

134. One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

150. Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

155. The allies we gain by victory, will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

187. To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies.

204. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.