“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream. It will be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The PEOPLE being regarded as the essential part of the State, and FOOD as the people's heaven, is it not right that those in… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
