If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If you follow the enemy's shifts and changes, you can always find a way to win. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In warfare, first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death,… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and… — 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
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
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. — Sun Tzu Copy Share
“In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share
“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
Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. — Sun Tzu Copy Share
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
“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share
“You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share
“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
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
“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
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. — Sun Tzu Copy Share
“To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share
