The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

You can make a lot of money from a book, but that is done by using a book as a marketing tool.

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.

For my own part, I think that Johnston's tactics were right. Anything that could have prolonged the war a year beyond the time that it did finally close, would probably have exhausted the North to such an extent that they might then have abandoned the contest and agreed to a separation.

Some commanders can move troops so as to get the maximum distance out of them without fatigue, while others can wear them out in a few days without accomplishing so much.

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

Pantagruel said to his men, "Gentlemen, I have made this prisoner believe that we will not assault them till to-morrow at noon, but my intention is that we charge them about the hour of the first sleep.

The Ways and Means Committee is supposed to find ways to divide up the means.

UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With