“When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.” — 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
“If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but… — 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
“When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody… — 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
Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its… — 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
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and… — 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
“Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest. In raiding and plundering be like fire, in… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle … They conquer by strategy. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.” — 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
“When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.” — 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
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