The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when... — Napoleon Bonaparte

The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when it is too late.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

Insight: We wait for the smoke alarm to go off before checking batteries. We ignore that weird noise in the car until it becomes a $2,000 repair. The cruel irony: necessity screams loudest right when prevention would've been cheap.

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The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when it is too late.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Insight

We wait for the smoke alarm to go off before checking batteries. We ignore that weird noise in the car until it becomes a $2,000 repair. The cruel irony: necessity screams loudest right when prevention would've been cheap.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general and the first Emperor of France, reigning from 1804 to 1814. He is best known for his military conquests that expanded the French Empire and his role in the Napoleonic Wars that had a significant impact on European history.

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