Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.