First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Interpretation
Achieve success before strategizing your next actions.
This quote by Horatio Nelson emphasizes the importance of first achieving victory in any endeavor before determining how to best utilize that success. It suggests that once you have succeeded, it is crucial to plan and act effectively to capitalize on that achievement, ensuring that your efforts lead to even greater results.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in business.
Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
I've always said if I'm winning at one thing, I'm failing at another.
If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
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