"Plans must be simple and flexible....They must..." - Quote by George S Patton
Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.
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“Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts”
“To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
More on Planning
“Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?”
“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.”
“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”
More on Simplicity
“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].”
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
“The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.”