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Tag Tag Decisive action
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.
George S. Patton War As I Knew It · 1947

Quotes

“The first rule of war is to concentrate superior strength for decisive action and to avoid division of force or engaging in detail.”

Winston Churchill · The World Crisis, 1923-1931 · Primary source

“Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it. We must act. We must act quickly.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt · First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 · Primary source

“A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution ten minutes later.”

George S. Patton · War As I Knew It, 1947 · Primary source

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