Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

It's all about timing and taking out big shots at the right time.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Timing is everything.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

It is necessary secretly ---and urgently---to prepare for terror. And on Tuesday we will decide whether it will be through the SNK or otherwise

I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It's not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.