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

Attributed to Rommel‎'s "Infanterie Greift An" ("Infantry Attacks") (1937), in "World War II: The Definitive Visual History: from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" by Richard Holmes, p. 128, 2009.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.