Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Another quote →

Source, in full

This is cited to to Rommel‎'s Infanterie Greift An [Infantry Attacks] (1937) in World War II : The Definitive Visual History (2009) by Richard Holmes, p. 128, and Timelines of History (2011) by DK Publishing, p. 392, but to George S. Patton, in Patton's Principles : A Handbook for Managers Who Mean It! (1982) by Porter B. Williamson as well as Leadership (1990) by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 47

More quotes by Erwin Rommel

All Erwin Rommel quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Erwin Rommel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.