Have character, but don't be a character.

The combat of WAR and an economic WAR have a lot of similarities. You do have to be skilled, aggressive, know your enemy and your strong attributes and limitations. Both skills are needed although one may be more natural.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.