一生懸命だと知恵が出る、中途半端だと愚痴が出る、いい加減だと言い訳が出る。

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

People are the castle, people are the walls, people are the moat. Compassion makes allies; cruelty makes enemies.

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

A million hearts as one.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule

When the cunning rabbit is dead, the hunting dog is boiled.

-- The greatest military mind of early imperial China, whose campaigns established the Han dynasty (c. 231-196 BCE). Han Xin's tactical innovations — including the legendary 'battle with backs to the river' — demonstrated that battlefield psychology and terrain exploitation could overcome any numerical disadvantage. His reward