(77 quotes found)
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu
“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
“The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”
“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.”
“Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.”
“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.”
“So it is said that victory can be made.”
“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.”
“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
