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Patton's Maxims
GENERAL PATTON’S MAXIMS
A commander will command.
Never fight a battle when nothing is gained by win-
ning.
A good solution applied with vigor now is better
than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
Never let the enemy pick the battle site.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
Be alert to the source of trouble.
No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any
man can become great.
Officers must assert themselves by example and
by voice.
Do everything you ask of those you command.
One must choose a system and stick to it.
Do more than is required of you.
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
Do not fear failure.
Select leaders for accomplishment—not for affec-
tion.
Do not make excuses, whether it’s your fault or
not.
Strategy and tactics do not change. Only the means
of applying them are different.
Do not take counsel of your fears.
Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
Do your duty as you see it and damn the conse-
quences.
Take calculated risks.
Fame never yet found a man who waited to be
found.
The leader must be an actor.
The more senior the officer, the more time he has
to go to the front.
Genius is an immense capacity for taking pains.
Give credit where it’s due.
The only thing to do when a son-of-a-bitch looks
cross-eyed at you is to beat the hell out of him right
then and there.
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad
tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
The soldier is the army.
Haste and speed are not synonymous.
The only tactical principle which is not subject to
change; it is, “To use the means at hand to inflict
the maximum amount of wounds, death, and de-
struction on the enemy in the minimum amount of
time.”
I prefer a loyal staff officer to a brilliant one.
In case of doubt, attack.
It’s the unconquerable soul of man, not the nature
of the weapon he uses, that insures victory.
There is only one type of discipline, perfect disci-
pline.
Keep a quick line of communications.
War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
We can never get anything across unless we talk
the language of the people we are trying to instruct.
Make your plans to fit the circumstances.
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by
knowing too much about too little.
You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing
on which you have decided.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually
the most absent characteristic in men.
You’re never beaten until you admit it
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