Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Strategy
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Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.
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Fanaticism must first be lulled, in order that it may be eradicated.
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I accept I might be defeated, but caught in surprise, never.
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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)
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If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
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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.
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If the whole world was a state, Istanbul would be the capital of it.
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In warfare, the mental to the physical is as three is to one.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Now we are in a fix. Peace has been declared.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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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.
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The allies we gain by victory, will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
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To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.