He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.
謀多きは勝ち、少なきは負ける。
Military Strategists
Mōri Motonari
A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single province into western Japan's dominant power through diplomacy, espionage, and the patient cultivation of alliances (1497-1571). Mori Motonari's 'three arrows' lesson to his sons — that unity multiplies strength — became one of Japan's most famous leadership parables.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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A million hearts as one.
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攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。
-- Oda Nobunaga
I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.
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One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.
-- Tōgō Heihachirō