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• The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
• Any general system law will have at least two peculiar exceptions.
  -- The Law of Unhappy Peculiarities -- Gerald Weinberg...
• Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.
• Generally, he who occupies the field of battle first and awaits his enemies is at ease. -- Sun Tzu
• Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field.
• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance.
  This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men....
• Bachelor: plays the field until the field comes in.
• The victory of endurance born. -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- The Battle-Field
• Opportunity... often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
  -- Napoleon Hill...