Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
A leader leads by example not by force.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have.
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.
I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.