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Before Quotes by Sun Tzu
- When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before…
- Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.
- Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.
- There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take…
- If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.
- With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies.…
- The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol…
- If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If,…
- The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.
- Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity…
- Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph.
- Every battle is won before it is fought.
- All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.
- All battles are won before they start.
- Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.
- To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer…
- Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations…
- The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
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