ぼくには人に誇れるような学歴も才能もない。だけど、一つだけ誇れるものがある。それは、やろうと思ったことは必ずやるということだ

Death is inherent in adventure. But death is not the purpose.

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

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

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

A general must be cautious in five things: reason, preparation, decisiveness, discipline, and restraint.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies