Achievement Quote by Adolf Galland

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your…

— Sun Tzu

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

— Sun Tzu

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

— Alfie Kohn

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

— Michael Porter

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

— Anonymous

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

— Carl von Clausewitz

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

— John Templeton

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

— George Eliot

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

— Denis Waitley

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

— Sun Tzu

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

— John Wooden

“A successful special operation defies conventional wisdom by using a small force to defeat a much larger or well-entrenched opponent. This book develops a…

— William H. McRaven