Erwin Rommel Quotes
A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.
Citations
Rommel, Erwin. The Rommel Papers. Edited by B. H. Liddell Hart, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
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Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.