If you understand principles, you can create tactics. If you are dependent on perishable tactics, you are always at a disadvantage.

Revolutionary tactics must harmonize with revolutionary principles. We could better hope to succeed with reactionary principles and revolutionary tactics than with revolutionary principles and reactionary tactics.

The basic principles alone often won't provide specific answers, but they'll provide the context needed to ask the right questions. And if we're used to working things out... we won't feel hopeless when the answer isn't obvious...

We’ve gotta roll with the punches
Learn to play all of our hunches.
Makin’ the best of whatever comes your way.
Forget that blind ambition
And learn to trust your intuition.
Plowin’ straight ahead come what may.

If you know the first principles of something, you can build the rest of your knowledge around them to produce something new.

But as with all skills, the most sophisticated techniques tend to have their foundation in the simplest of principles.

Techniques for establishing first principles If we never learn to take something apart, test our assumptions about it, and reconstruct it, we end up bound by what other people tell us — trapped in the way things have always been done. When the environment changes, we just continue as if things were the same, making costly mistakes along the way.

We believe that tactics should be chosen to fit the particular situation, not drawn from a preconceived moral code.

Walt’s fundamentals for success still ring true. You build the best product you can. You give people effective training to support the delivery of exceptional service. You learn from your experiences. And you celebrate success. You never stop growing. You never stop believing.

Getting through life as unscathed as possible depended to a large extent on two fundamental principles: knowing the right time to arrive and knowing the right time to leave.

" The Principle Always Work if you Work the Principles"

- All you have to do is DECIDE what you want. BELIEVE you DESERVE IT, and PRACTICE the success PRINCIPLES.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

The most important thing is that you develop your own principles and ideally write them down, especially if you are working with others.

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.