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Napoleon Bonaparte identified patterns in Time Management that most people miss. This collection reveals those insights, each quote preserved with full attribution and context. Use it to sharpen your thinking, spot leverage points, and avoid common mistakes. When Time Management gets complicated, return here for the mental clarity Napoleon Bonaparte would bring to the situation.
"One jump ahead of the enemy is worth a thousand miles behind."
"I may lose a battle, but I shall never lose a minute."
"I am never so much a man as when I am in a state of crisis."
"He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat."
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest."
"Space we can recover, time never."
"The only thing I cannot recover is lost time."
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
"Everything in war is a matter of time."
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."
"The art of war is the art of time."
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second."
"There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives the superiority."
"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."
"In war, the moral is to the physical as three to one."
"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
"Circumstances? I make circumstances!"
"The art of war is a simple art; everything is in the execution."
"Activity! Activity! Speed!"
"A minute of lost time is a chance for misfortune."
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
"I have no time to be a person of fashion."
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Source: Book: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less chary of the latter than the former."
"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind."
"The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs."
"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
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