“No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!”

I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

One cannot govern with ‘buts’.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

Knowledge is a tangible asset, quite often the most important tool in your work.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me.