You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
What do you take me for, an idiot?
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.