Opportunity in war is usually of greater value than bravery... Terrain is often of more value than bravery... Bravery is of more value than numbers.
Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.
After announcing that the Stealth bomber would overrun by 16%, and would cost over half a billion:] Whatever it costs, it's worth it.
A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
The U.S. is so important to me, Europe is important.
Land has lost its original strategic value; military forces are no longer employed primarily to conquer land, but to ensure stable economic, energy and information flows, which constitute the true resources, along with the natural resource
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Bargaining chips that you never get to spend are not worth anything
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.
If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.
The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
In pharma, we continuously look for acquisitions... if it makes strategic sense and if there is any value.
