HANNIBAL as a role model for business investors:

Leaders & Success
Hannibal Overcame Mountains To Reach Victory

By SEAN HIGGINS, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 05/27/2009 05:19 PM ET

The name of the game was strategy, and Hannibal played it well.

"Of all that befell both the Romans and the Carthaginians, the cause was one man and one mind: Hannibal's," wrote the ancient Roman historian Polybius in his account of the Second Punic War.

Hannibal (247-183 B.C.) was the greatest military genius of antiquity, a master of battlefield tactics and long-term strategy. For 16 years he fought the mighty Roman legions, chalking up victory after victory. Only the failures of other Carthaginian leaders let Rome survive at all.

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