You have to be fast on your ...

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
 Charles de Gaulle

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
 Charles de Gaulle
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.
 Charles de Gaulle
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
 Charles de Gaulle
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.
 Charles de Gaulle
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
 Charles de Gaulle