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Order Quotes by Sun Tzu
- If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are…
- Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.
- The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.
- When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers…
- It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.
- When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
- Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
- Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the…
- Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though…
- Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent…
- If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.
- The line between disorder and order lies in logistics...
- In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics,…
- In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle,…
- The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
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