Logo
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from th

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Other quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Prudence
Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Read Quote

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
good
Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Read Quote

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
God
Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Business
category

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Harold S. Geneen

Category:
Business

Its to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and thats my method. – Edward Hopper

Category:
Business

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business. – Kim Cattrall

Category:
Business

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. – Bill Gates

Category:
Business

Random Quotes

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies. – Thomas E. Mann

Category:
Leadership

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. – Todd Tiahrt

Category:
Home

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff. – David Herbert Lawrence

Category:
Art

Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. – Author Unknown

Category:
Light