Bertolt Brecht Quotes

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

In the end, individual titles are achieved with the help of all your team-mates.

The way I see it, my blood, sweat, and tears are not just for me; it's for Fifth Harmony as well. We have been blessed. Most groups have lead singers, but we don't.

It's not what one person does. One person is going to get to be the star of the game. But it might have been the guy who got the guy over that's the real star of the game.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.

It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.