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.
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.
As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit
When I grew up, my father used to say that cricket is not a profession, cricket cannot bring you food. But I think he lived to see the day when I was actually paid.
Iβve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. Iβve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken and then throwing the bones away. They have not survived, I have!
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