Quote: The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: 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 beforehand. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: 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. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the Attack. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: 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, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]
Quote: Probe him and learn where his strength is abundant and where deficient. [Sun Tzu Sun Tzu]