"He who fails to prepare, prepares to..." - Quote by Confucius

“Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”

“I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.”

“To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.”

“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”

“All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.”

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”

“The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.”