Top 100 War Business Quotes
#1. Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.
Robert Sheckley
#2. Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
Sun Tzu
#3. Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
Tim Robbins
#4. 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.
Nathan Myhrvold
#5. There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
Jerry Della Femina
#7. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.
Sun Tzu
#8. To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.
Sun Tzu
#9. You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
Sun Tzu
#10. The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.
Aleister Crowley
#11. War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.
David Douglas Duncan
#13. Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.
Sun Tzu
#14. Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
Mario Puzo
#15. Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
Thomas Pynchon
#16. Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn't you say? Everyone practises it, from the President of China to the whores on Lockhart Road.
Michael Wreford
#17. I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#18. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
Sun Tzu
#19. There are two kinds of warriors:
those on the battlefield,
and those in the boardroom;
both are out to win.
But the age of King Alexander has gone,
and the age of Bill Gates has come.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
Dennis Miller
#21. The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore
#22. We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.
Tony Benn
#23. It was humanity's ability to heal so quickly, by means of babies, which encouraged so many people to think of explosions as show business, as highly theatrical forms of self-expression, and little more.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
A.J. Muste
#25. Victory after all, I suppose! ... Well, it seems a very gloomy business.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. War what is it good for? It's good for business.
Billy Bragg
#27. It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
Sun Tzu
#28. Blackwater is a company whose business depends on war and conflict to thrive. It operates in a demand-based industry where corporate profits are intimately linked to an escalation of violence. That
Jeremy Scahill
#29. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country
its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
Sun Tzu
#30. Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.
Sun Tzu
#31. 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'.
Duke Of Wellington
#32. Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.
Richard Branson
#33. The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
Aristotle.
#34. Never venture, never win!
Sun Tzu
#35. They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.
Kenneth Roberts
#36. The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
Robert Capa
#37. The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
Thomas Sowell
#38. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.
Sun Tzu
#39. In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!
Jay Leno
#40. The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points;
Sun Tzu
#41. The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
Pete Hamill
#42. Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.
John Locke
#43. It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.
Sun Tzu
#44. Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
Aristotle.
#45. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.
Aristophanes
#46. We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.
Sun Tzu
#47. Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars, they would have been arrested - or worse.
Michael Moore
#48. Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.
Sun Tzu
#49. The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
Sun Tzu
#50. Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits
Sun Tzu
#51. Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
Sun Tzu
#52. Great results, can be achieved with small forces.
Sun Tzu
#53. It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.
Hugh Howey
#54. Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
Lindsey Graham
#55. Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
Henry Rollins
#56. The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!
Jerry Brown
#57. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
Giannina Braschi
#58. War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#59. A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.
Confucius
#60. Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.
Andrew Saul
#61. Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
Sun Tzu
#62. When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Sun Tzu
#63. In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling, laborious business of backing itself into a horrible war.
Michael Chabon
#64. No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
Donald Rumsfeld
#65. I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.
Gary Numan
#66. Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on Japan.
America declared war. And she was a whore again.
Jackie Collins
#67. Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
David Halberstam
#68. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.
John Cusack
#69. Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
Frank Knox
#70. Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war.
Charles Duhigg
#71. For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
Karl Liebknecht
#72. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
Sun Tzu
#73. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured
Sun Tzu
#74. War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.
J.G. Farrell
#75. If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.
Henry L. Stimson
#76. There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.
Sun Tzu
#77. We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
Karl Barth
#78. When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.
Steven Pressfield
#79. The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
George Will
#80. War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#81. War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#82. Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.
Harvey MacKay
#83. They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.
Charles Fishman
#84. Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
Christian Nestell Bovee
#85. In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.
Frederic Bastiat
#86. War is the most profitable business on earth
Kenneth Eade
#87. If his forces are united, separate them.
Sun Tzu
#88. [2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Steven Knight
#89. The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
Sun Tzu
#90. There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Will Rogers
#91. And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.
Stephen Cambone
#92. So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
Sun Tzu
#93. So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.
Havelock Ellis
#94. When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.
Sun Tzu
#95. In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst.
Timothy Ferriss
#96. When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
Sun Tzu
#97. If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
Edward S. Herman
#98. War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
Herman Wouk
#99. War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
Joss Whedon
#100. Do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat
Sun Tzu
