Sublime

Here, we conclude with a few of the strategic insights that we find most instructive from this quiet, articulate, supremely confident, yet remarkably modest man from whom we have learned so much.

did I realize we needed to create the wealth before we can share it.

Human beings, regrettable though it may be, are inherently vicious and have to be restrained from their viciousness.

In the East, we start with self-reliance.

Strategy requires a sense of the whole that reveals the significance of respective parts.

In other words, society should make it worth people’s while to give their

What are they? Powers of analysis; logical grasp of the facts; concentration on the basic points, extracting the principles. You score high marks in mathematics, you have got it. But that is not enough…They must have

Identifying the major participants in a coming great-power war, should it happen, is no Black Swan mystery. It’s more like a Gray Rhino, to use policy analyst Michele Wucker’s evocative phrase—something which, when we pause to think about it, is big, obvious, and galloping straight toward us. To list the roster on one side, we need only refer to Am