“No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.”

“No plan survives contact with the enemy”

“Styles are tailor made to different situations. Different leaders must have their own styles and these styles must be able to adapt to different people and situations.”

“Generating a rapidly changing environment--that is, engaging in actively that is so quick it is disorienting and appears uncertain or ambiguous to the enemy--inhibits the adversary's ability to adapt and causes confusion and disorder that, in turn, causes an adversary to overreact or underreact. Boyd closed the briefing by saying the message is that whoever can handle the quickest rate of change is the one who survives.”

“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”

“Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera. ”