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Napoleon Bonaparte approached Wealth from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Wealth without inheriting broken mental models.
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want now."
"The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success."
"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 first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second."
"Put your iron hand in a velvet glove."
"Wealth is only useful when it is used to increase the power of the nation."
"I have a taste for the foundation, not for the possession. My riches consist in glory and authority."
"He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat."
"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
"It is not enough to be a man of genius; one must also have the character to support it."
"Men are led by trifles, for they are more moved by their vanity than by their interests."
"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted."
"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
"Economy is the first duty of a state."
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
"In business, as in war, the flash of a moment decides the day."
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
"Success is the most convincing talker in the world."
"Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
"Trade makes people rich, but it is the state that makes them powerful."
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
"Riches are the result of labor, but they are also the cause of it."
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
"The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope."
"The laws of circumstances are abolished by new circumstances."
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts."
"The sinews of war is money."
"A merchant has no country."
"Public debt is a curse to the people; it is a weight which bears down upon the industry of the country."
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
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