All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.