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| Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful. | General Robert E. Woods | President, Sears, Roebuck |
| That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. | Alexander Haig | |
| Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. | Greg LeMond | 1961-, American Cyclist, 3 Times Winner of the Tour de France |
| It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. | J. C. Macaulay | |
| The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them. | Josiah Gilbert Holland | 1819-1881, American Author |
| The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia] | Karl Marx | 1818-1883, German Political Theorist, Social Philosopher |
| One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
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| Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet |
| Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. | Pearl S. Buck | 1892-1973, American Novelist |
| It is tact that is golden, not silence. | Samuel Butler | 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist |
| Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. | Samuel Butler | 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist |
| All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. | Sun Tzu | c 400-430 bc, Chinese Military Strategist, Author of ''Art of War'' |
| Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. | Sun Tzu | c 400-430 bc, Chinese Military Strategist, Author of ''Art of War'' |
| Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. | Thomas Szasz | 1920-, American Psychiatrist |
| Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. | W. P. Scargill | |
