Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. — Oprah Winfrey

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I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations. -Isoroku Yamamoto

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I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens. -Isoroku Yamamoto

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The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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